Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/ii/paper-1/22h/b/solution

Let . For each , Bessel inequality gives
so the th coordinate sequence is bounded. By the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem, choose a subsequence on which the first coordinate converges. From it choose a further subsequence on which the second coordinate converges, and continue.
Take the diagonal subsequence . For every fixed , its th coordinate converges, and it remains bounded by . The coordinate criterion for weak convergence in a separable Hilbert space supplies an such that
This proves the theorem on a weak subsequence of a bounded Hilbert-space sequence.

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