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I'm having a hard time trying to hash this through - any help would be appreciated.

Let $l^2$ be the sequence space defined by $$\{\{a_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}:a_n \in \mathbb{R}, \sum_n |a_n|^2 < \infty \}$$ Define $K=\{x\in l^2 :|x_n| \leq \frac{1}{n} \ \forall n = 1,2,...\}$. Show that every infinite subset of K has a limit point in K.

A suggested proof begins: let $E \subset K$ be and infinite subset and $\{x_n\}_{n=1}^\infty \subset E$ a sequence of distinct elements, where $x_n = (x_{n,1},x_{n,2},...)$ with $|x_{n,k}|\leq \frac{1}{k}$. I know I need to show convergence from here, and show that there exists a convergent sequence that is a limit point of E. However, not exactly sure where to go beyond defining that first sequence.

Thank you!

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You don't need to show $x_n$ converges, you need to show a subsequence of $x_n$ converges. The entire question could be rephrased as "show $K$ is a compact subset of $\ell_2$".

First note that $K$ is a bounded set, if $x \in K$ then $\lVert x \rVert_2 \leq \sum_k \frac{1}{k^2} < \infty$. Then by applying a diagonalisation trick, given a sequence $(x_n) \subset K$, we can find a subsequence $(x_{n_m})$ which converges in every component, meaning $$ x_i = \lim_{m \to \infty} x_{n_m, i}$$ exists for all $i$. This is a common trick when working with infinite sequences, if you're unfamiliar with this argument please say.

It should be clear that $x_i \leq \frac{1}{i}$ hence $x = (x_1, x_2, \ldots) \in K$. So we need to prove $\lVert x_{n_m} - x \lVert_2^2 \to 0$ to prove convergence in $\ell_2$. To do this we exploit the definition, $\sum_n \frac{1}{n^2} < \infty$ so for all $\epsilon > 0$ we can pick $I$ such that $\sum_{i \geq I} \left(\frac{2}{n}\right)^2 < \frac{1}{2} \epsilon$. Then \begin{align*} \lVert x_{n_m} - x \rVert_2^2 &= \sum_{i=1}^{\infty} \lvert x_{n_m, i} - x_i \rvert^2\\ &\leq \sum_{i=1}^I \lvert x_{n_m, i} - x_i \rvert^2 + \sum_{i=I}^{\infty} \left(\frac{2}{n}\right)^2 \\ &< \sum_{i=1}^I \lvert x_{n_m, i} - x_i \rvert^2 + \frac{1}{2}\epsilon \\ &\to \frac{1}{2} \epsilon \quad \text{as $m \to \infty$} \end{align*} We could safely interchange the limit $m \to \infty$ and the sum since the sum is now a finite one. This result holds for all $\epsilon > 0$ hence $\lim_{m \to \infty} \lVert x_{n_m} - x \rVert_2^2 \to 0$ as required.

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