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Proof of Closed Convex Subsets of the Lebesgue Space of Square-Integrable Vector-Valued Functions are Weakly Sequentially Closed

lemmalem:l2-mazur-weak-closed-2026a
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Reason: First published proof of lem:l2-mazur-weak-closed-2026a: the variational inequality for the nearest-point projection, passed to the weak limit.

Proof

The set KK is nonempty, since u1Ku_{1}\in K. By claim 1 of Nearest-Point Projection onto a Nonempty Closed Convex Subset of the Lebesgue Space of Square-Integrable Vector-Valued Functions the nearest-point projection p=πK(u)p=\pi_{K}(u) of uu onto KK exists, and by claim 2 of that theorem

up,  vpL20for every vK.\langle u-p,\;v-p\rangle_{L^{2}}\le0\qquad\text{for every }v\in K .

Taking v=unv=u_{n} and expanding by linearity of the pairing in the second argument (claim 4 of The Lebesgue Space of Square-Integrable Vector-Valued Functions is a Real Inner Product Space) gives

up,  unL2up,  pL2(nN).\langle u-p,\;u_{n}\rangle_{L^{2}}\le\langle u-p,\;p\rangle_{L^{2}}\qquad(n\in\mathbb{N}).

By symmetry of the pairing (claim 4 of that lemma), up,unL2=un,upL2\langle u-p,u_{n}\rangle_{L^{2}}=\langle u_{n},u-p\rangle_{L^{2}}, and weak convergence of (un)nN(u_{n})_{n\in\mathbb{N}} to uu, applied to the test element upu-p, says that the real sequence (un,upL2)nN\bigl(\langle u_{n},u-p\rangle_{L^{2}}\bigr)_{n\in\mathbb{N}} has limit u,upL2\langle u,u-p\rangle_{L^{2}}.

The constant sequence with value up,pL2\langle u-p,p\rangle_{L^{2}} has that value as its limit, and weak inequalities between convergent sequences are preserved in the limit by claim 1 (comparison) of Order Properties of Limits of Real Sequences. Hence

up,  uL2up,  pL2,\langle u-p,\;u\rangle_{L^{2}}\le\langle u-p,\;p\rangle_{L^{2}},

that is, again by linearity in the second argument, up,  upL20\langle u-p,\;u-p\rangle_{L^{2}}\le0. By claim 4 of the inner-product lemma the left-hand side equals upL22\lVert u-p\rVert^{2}_{L^{2}}, which is nonnegative; therefore upL22=0\lVert u-p\rVert^{2}_{L^{2}}=0, so upL2=0\lVert u-p\rVert_{L^{2}}=0 and u=pu=p by claim 4 of that lemma. Since pKp\in K, this gives uKu\in K.

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