Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 326 2 2 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
For Iterated Tikhonov regularization, set and . In a singular system of a compact operator, each coefficient obeysSumming this geometric recurrence givesEquivalently, its iterated Tikhonov spectral filter is . For , the finite geometric sum givesConsequently the inverse coefficient is at most . Thus every is a bounded linear operator withFor exact admissible data, write . The Picard criterion gives , andby dominated convergence theorem. Therefore this is a linear regularization of an inverse problem with discrete parameter ; a family for all positive can be obtained by setting . No upper restriction on the positive step size is needed for this implicit iteration.