Weak convergence in implies
in . The norm is weakly lower semicontinuous, so
The Rellich-Kondrashov compactness theorem for H01 upgrades the weak convergence to
strongly in . Indeed, compactness gives this along every subsequence after passage to a further subsequence, and the weak limit uniquely identifies every such strong limit as . Consequently,
Combining the two terms proves the weak lower semicontinuity of a bounded-domain Schrodinger energy: