Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2015/iii/paper-5/2/3/solution

Use the assumed separability of the Hilbert space to choose a countable Hilbertian basis . For , every scalar sequence is bounded. Repeated extraction followed by the diagonal subsequence argument gives one subsequence with all these coordinates converging, say to . The Bessel inequality gives for every , so exists and .
For , let be its finite basis truncation. Coordinate convergence gives , while the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounds the remaining inner product by , uniformly in . First choose large, then large. Thus
This proves the asserted sequential conclusion. To obtain actual compactness for the weak topology, note that on a bounded ball it is induced by the metric
Finite coordinates and the uniformly small tail show that gives coordinate convergence; uniform boundedness of the ball extends this to every inner product as above. Hence this metric induces exactly the restricted weak topology. In a metric space, sequential compactness implies compactness. The closed unit ball is therefore weakly compact, and the limit remains inside it.

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