Pointwise weak-limit bounds and traces for Galerkin paths #
These lemmas are the limit-identification half of the compactness step. They preserve the uniform-in-time energy bound, the initial trace, and scalar weak continuity once a pointwise weak subsequence has been extracted. They do not perform the extraction; the required uniform equicontinuity estimates still have to be supplied by the Galerkin equation.
Weak convergence preserves a uniform norm bound in a real Hilbert space.
A pointwise weak path limit inherits a weakly convergent sequence of initial traces.
A bounded sequence in a separable real Hilbert space has a weakly convergent subsequence.
This is the one-space extraction primitive for the parabolic compactness argument. The energy bound on the limit is included; applying it to a space-time graph carrier still requires that carrier's separability and completeness to be established.
A single subsequence makes both components of a bounded product-Hilbert sequence converge weakly. This packages simultaneous extraction for the space-time solution and its gradient.