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Here is the link of the question:

$L^2([0,1])$ is a set of first category in $L^1([0,1])$?

Where the answer is given there as follows:

For $n \in \mathbb N$ set $B_n = \{f \in L^2[0,1]\mid \|f\|_2 \le n \}$. We will show that $B_n$ is nowhere dense in $L^1$. Let $g \in L^1[0,1]\setminus L^2[0,1]$ and $f \in B_n$, then $f + \frac 1k g \to f$ in $L^1$ but $f+\frac 1k g \not\in B_n$ for all $k$. Hence $f \not\in \mathring{B_n}$ and $B_n$ doesn't have inner points. On the other hand, $B_n$ is closed in $L^1$: Let $g \in L^1$ and $g_k \in B_n$, $g_k \to g$. Then $g_{k_\ell} \to g$ almost everywhere for some subsequence, it follows by Fatou's Lemma \[ \int_0^1 |g|^2\, dx \le \liminf_{l \to \infty} \int_0^1 |g_{k_\ell}|^2 \, dx \le n^2 \] so $g \in B_n$.

As $L^2[0,1] = \bigcup_n B_n$ is a countable union of nowhere dense sets, it is of first category.

My question is:

why we take $g \in L^1[0,1]\setminus L^2[0,1]$ and $f \in B_n$, and why these leads to that then $f + \frac 1k g \to f$ in $L^1$ and why $f+\frac 1k g \not\in B_n$ for all $k$ ? and why these leads to that $f \not\in \mathring{B_n}$?

Could anyone explain these for me please? I was having hard times trying to understand the solution of this problem.

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    $f$ is not in the interior of $B_n$ since any neighborhood of it will contain the function $f + \frac{1}{k}g$ which is not in $B_n$. The fact that $f + \frac{1}{k}g \not\in B_n$ follows from $g$ not being an element of $L^2$. – Nicholas Roberts Mar 19 '20 at 02:59

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