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This work addresses an extension of the Aubin-Lions-Simon compactness result to generalized Bochner spaces $L^2(0,T;H(t))$, where $H(t)$ is a family of Hilbert spaces, parameterized by $t$. A compactness result of this type is needed in the…
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