It is sufficient that
and that the stopping rule obey
For example, works.
For exact data , each factor tends to zero. The Picard criterion makes square summable, while is uniformly bounded. The dominated convergence theorem on the resulting series yields .
For noisy data with , the filter representation gives
Indeed, when , Bernoulli's inequality gives ; when , the quotient is uniformly bounded because . Hence the triangle inequality gives
which proves that early-stopped Landweber iteration is a convergent regularization of an inverse problem.
A problem is well posed in the sense of Hadamard when a solution exists for every admissible datum, is unique, and depends continuously on the datum. It is ill posed if any one of these three properties fails.
For the inverse problem , a regularization of an inverse problem is a family of bounded maps that approximate the generally unbounded Moore–Penrose inverse of an operator . It is a convergent regularization of an inverse problem if there is a parameter rule such that
as for every .