Induction on k extracts, by the real Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem applied to one bounded coordinate at a time and composition of index maps, a subsequence whose first k coordinates converge; coordinatewise convergence then gives convergence in , and for a closed bounded set the limit cannot lie in the open complement.
Each result cited is universally quantified over the data in its own statement. No choice principle is used: the induction below proves an existential statement for each , and no sequence of choices is formed.
Let and be as in the statement; is a metric space by with the Euclidean Distance Is a Complete Metric Space with Coordinatewise Convergence §metric, so satisfies Metric Space §symmetric. Components are as in Euclidean Space : n-Tuples of Real Numbers with Their Componentwise Operations §membership.
Clause subsequence. Let be a sequence in whose set of terms is bounded in : there is a real with for all terms .
Bounded coordinates. Let and . By Euclidean Space : n-Tuples of Real Numbers with Their Componentwise Operations §operations, , so by Properties of the Euclidean Norm on : Square, Distance, Vanishing, Coordinate Bounds, Homogeneity, Triangle Inequalities and Expansion of a Square §coordinate and Properties of the Euclidean Norm on : Square, Distance, Vanishing, Coordinate Bounds, Homogeneity, Triangle Inequalities and Expansion of a Square §distance,
hence with , a real number by Closure Facts in an Ordered Field: Negatives, Differences, Quotients, Absolute Values, Powers, Natural Numbers, Halves and Minima §absolute-value. So for every strictly increasing the real sequence (a map by Sets and Maps: Ordinary Notation §maps, its condition being predicative by Predicative Substitution of Values of Functions and Binary Operations, and Predicative Formulas for Negatives, Differences, Absolute Values, Distances, Reciprocals and Quotients in an Ordered Field §value-substitution) is bounded, with the bound .
Induction on the number of coordinates. For with let be the statement: there is a strictly increasing map such that for every the real sequence is convergent in the sense of Convergent Sequences of Real Numbers §converges. We prove for every by induction from , The Natural Numbers and the Natural Numbers with Zero: Arithmetic, Order, Induction and Recursion §induction, applied to the class ; it is formed by a predicative formula with set parameters only ( and the sequence ), as quantifies over sets only (maps , natural numbers and elements of ).
: is empty by Intervals of Natural Numbers §segment, and the identity map of is strictly increasing.
Let and assume , witnessed by . Let be the real sequence (note since ); it is bounded, as shown above, so by Completeness of the Real Numbers for Sequences: Monotone Convergence, the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem and Cauchy Sequences §bolzano-weierstrass it has a convergent subsequence, that is, there is a strictly increasing with convergent. Let , strictly increasing by Monotone Sequences and Subsequences: Comparison of All Terms, Growth of the Indices, and Subsequences of Subsequences §composition. For , the sequence is , convergent. For , the sequence converges to some real by ; by Metric Spaces: Balls, the Metric Topology, and the Real and Complex Numbers as Metric Spaces §real-line it converges to in ; its subsequence , which is , converges to in by the background of Metric Spaces: Balls, the Metric Topology, and the Real and Complex Numbers as Metric Spaces §background, hence converges to by Metric Spaces: Balls, the Metric Topology, and the Real and Complex Numbers as Metric Spaces §real-line. As means or , witnesses .
Conclusion. By there is a strictly increasing such that, for every , the real sequence is convergent, hence convergent in by Metric Spaces: Balls, the Metric Topology, and the Real and Complex Numbers as Metric Spaces §real-line. For let , its limit in , unique by the same background clause, to which the sequence converges by The Limit of a Convergent Sequence in a Metric Space §converges-to-limit. Let be the map on , given by Sets and Maps: Ordinary Notation §maps and Euclidean Space : n-Tuples of Real Numbers with Their Componentwise Operations §membership. The subsequence of , per Subsequences §subsequence, has -th coordinate sequence converging to in for every , so it converges to in by with the Euclidean Distance Is a Complete Metric Space with Coordinatewise Convergence §coordinatewise, and it is convergent.
Clause sequentially-compact. Let be closed in and bounded in , with a real such that for all . Let be a sequence in with for every . Its set of terms is a subset of , hence bounded with the same by Bounded Subset of a Metric Space §bounded. By the clause subsequence, proved above, there are a strictly increasing and such that converges to in .
We show . Suppose . Since is closed, by Closed Subset of a Topological Space §closed, so is open in by Metric Spaces: Balls, the Metric Topology, and the Real and Complex Numbers as Metric Spaces §topology. In this order: as , Open Subset of a Metric Space §open gives a real with ; then Convergent Sequence in a Metric Space §converges with gives with for every . In particular , so by Open Ball in a Metric Space §membership, whence , contradicting . Hence , and is sequentially compact in .
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