Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 326 2 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The assumptions prove convergence to the set of J-minimizing solutions, and subsequential convergence to a member of that set. Convergence to a single fixed member requires uniqueness or a suitable selection rule.
Let be any J-minimizing solution, whose existence is granted. It is feasible for every noisy-data constraint because and . Minimality therefore gives . All reconstructions lie in this strongly sequentially compact space sublevel set. For any sequence , pass to a subsequence with . Boundedness of and the triangle inequality implyso . By sequential lower semicontinuity,Thus is a J-minimizing solution. The same compactness argument shows the distance to a set of exact minimizers tends to zero: otherwise a subsequence at a fixed positive distance would converge to an exact minimizer, a contradiction. If that minimizer is unique, every convergent subsequence has the same limit, giving the asserted full strong convergence.
For a counterexample to full convergence under the printed hypotheses alone, take , , , and . This is nonnegative and continuous, with compact sublevel sets for . Every point of is both an exact and a residual-method minimizer. Choosing gives a valid sequence of minimizers that does not converge. The reusable corrected statement is compact-sublevel convergence of the residual method.