On a fixed smooth bounded domain, zero-boundary solutions with forcing in a bounded subset of are uniformly bounded in by a maximum-principle barrier and the global Schauder estimate. The Arzela-Ascoli theorem gives convergence in . A closed Hölder-norm constraint passes to the limit by lower semicontinuity of a Hölder seminorm, so the constrained solution set is compact rather than merely relatively compact.
If uniformly and the Hölder seminorms are uniformly bounded, each fixed difference quotient converges. Taking the supremum over point pairs gives . The supremum norms converge, so the full Hölder norm has the same lower semicontinuity of a Hölder seminorm.