Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/iii/paper-6/4/i/solution

Assume weakly null sequences have norm-null images. Let be any sequence in , where is weakly compact, and choose with . By the weak subsequence result, some . Then , and the assumed property gives
Thus every sequence in has a norm-convergent subsequence with limit in . In a metric space, sequential compactness is equivalent to compactness. Therefore . This is one characterization of a completely continuous operator.

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