A compatibility condition lower-bounds prediction norm by a scaled norm on a Lasso cone condition. One convention requires throughout the cone.
Write . On , Hölder's inequality gives
Since , the triangle inequality gives
Substitution in the Basic inequality for the Lasso, followed by discarding the nonnegative prediction-error term, yields
Therefore , the Lasso cone condition.
Part b places in the Lasso cone condition. Keeping the prediction-error term in the same argument gives
where the second step is the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. The restricted eigenvalue condition gives
for nonzero in this cone. Division by proves
The result is immediate when .