By definition of the weak topology, exactly when for every .
Let be bounded and choose a norm-dense sequence in . Successive subsequences make converge, and the diagonal argument produces a single subsequence on which every converges. Uniform boundedness of and norm approximation of an arbitrary by the show that is Cauchy for every . Thus is weakly Cauchy, and
for every , so its difference sequence is weakly null.
For the countable family , use the weak metric from part a. Delete a finite initial segment from the th sequence so that every remaining term has weak distance less than from zero, and relabel that tail. Enumerate all these tails while preserving the order within each one. For every weak neighbourhood of zero, all terms from sufficiently large lie inside it, and only finitely many terms from each of the finitely many remaining sequences lie outside it. The resulting enumeration is weakly null and contains the relabelled th sequence as a subsequence for every . Equivalently, without relabelling, it contains a tail-subsequence of every original sequence, which is the form used below.
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Weakly Cauchy sequence Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A sequence is weakly Cauchy when is a Cauchy sequence for every continuous linear functional . Its consecutive differences form a weakly null sequence.