Past exam of the functional analysis II course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 a iii Solution 2026-10-25
By weakly convergent sequence is bounded, is finite. Choose any . Once have been chosen, put . Since is fixed, weak convergence to zero gives . Choose with . This gives the required one-sided inequality as well.
The useful estimate is for the squared norm. Indeed, , and the inner product expansion givesBy mathematical induction, . HenceThis proves norm convergence of the averages, the weak Banach–Saks theorem in a Hilbert space. The printed inequality omits the square on its left side. Our stronger estimate also proves that printed bound, since for , but the printed bound alone only bounds the averages and cannot imply their norm convergence to zero.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 3 22H b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Uniform boundedness principle states that if is a Banach space and a family of bounded linear operators is pointwise bounded, then .
Suppose in the normed vector space . For each , define the evaluation functionalThe completeness of the dual space says that is Banach even when is not. For each , the scalar sequence converges to and is therefore bounded. Uniform boundedness givesBy the canonical embedding into the bidual and the Hahn-Banach theorem, . Hencewhich proves that a weakly convergent sequence is bounded.