Write , , and , with as required by coercivity and by the printed inverse power. The Tikhonov regularization with a coercive penalty operator normal equation gives
This also holds for inconsistent data in , because and therefore . Taking the inner product with gives
For any with , put and use Cauchy-Schwarz inequality to bound the right-hand side by . Since , completing the square in yields
The positive root of this quadratic inequality is at most . Infimizing over proves the approximate source bound for coercive Tikhonov regularization, in fact slightly more strongly:
Injectivity gives . Given any positive tolerance, approximate by for some finite-norm ; for all sufficiently large it is admissible in the infimum. Thus
No attainment of that infimum is needed.
The approximate source bound for coercive Tikhonov regularization first allows a fixed sufficiently large to make small, then a sufficiently small to make small. This order of limits proves for every datum in its domain.
For the noise error let . Its normal equation for coercive Tikhonov regularization gives
Completing the square shows , hence . The noise-bias decomposition for linear regularization now gives
Therefore the sufficient regularization parameter choice is
For example with works. Coercivity makes boundedly invertible for each positive , so these are continuous linear reconstruction operators and form a convergent regularization of an inverse problem.