Mazur's lemma

In mathematics, Mazur's lemma is a result in the theory of normed vector spaces. It shows that any weakly convergent sequence in a normed space has a sequence of convex combinations of its members that converges strongly to the same limit. Mazur's lemma is used in the proof of Tonelli's theorem.

Statement of the lemma

Mazur's theoremLet be a normed vector space and let be a sequence which converges weakly to some .

Then there exists a sequence made up of finite convex combination of the 's of the form such that strongly that is .

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References

  • Renardy, Michael & Rogers, Robert C. (2004). An introduction to partial differential equations. Texts in Applied Mathematics 13 (Second ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 350. ISBN 0-387-00444-0.
  • Ekeland, Ivar & Temam, Roger (1976). Convex analysis and variational problems. Studies in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 1 (Second ed.). New York: North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam-Oxford, American. p. 6.