Let , the essential supremum of . If , almost everywhere and every Lp norm is zero. Suppose . Since almost everywhere and ,
For any with , the measurable set has positive Lebesgue measure; otherwise would be an essential upper bound. Hence
For fixed , . Thus . Letting and combining with the upper bound proves
The positive-measure superlevel sets explain why the Lp norms converge to the supremum norm even when the essential maximum is never attained.
Put , where . Since , part (ii), followed by a -th root, gives the Moser iteration step
After steps,
The geometric series and its differentiated form give
In particular the exact convergent product is
The printed hint's equality to a single power of is not correct in general; its claimed finiteness is correct and the displayed expression supplies the correction.
On a finite-measure domain, Lp norms converge to the supremum norm for a bounded continuous function. Indeed, the upper bound is ; for every , the set has positive measure, giving . Let in the iteration and use part (i), which gives . The Dirichlet eigenfunction supremum estimate is
The eigenvalue exponent is exactly . The constant depends only on : the supplied zero-boundary Sobolev inequality has a dimension-only constant, and every product factor above depends only on .