 Weak lower semicontinuity of the Hilbert norm (source code)

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= Weak lower semicontinuity of the Hilbert norm

If $x_n\rightharpoonup x$ in a Hilbert space, then
$$
\lVert x\rVert\leq\liminf_n\lVert x_n\rVert.
$$
For $x\ne0$, take the inner product with $x$ and apply Cauchy-Schwarz before passing to the lower limit.

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