Use the single event
Fix a realization in . The action space is nonempty and compact, since it is a closed subset of the finite-dimensional unit ball. The Lipschitz continuous reward function is continuous, so there is an optimal action . Because the same reward function is used at every time, the pseudoregret is , where
The pair is feasible in the optimization defining . This optimism in the face of uncertainty gives
For any positive-definite matrix , the ordinary Cauchy-Schwarz inequality applied to and proves
Both and belong to the same confidence ellipsoid . The triangle inequality for the norm associated with this weighted Euclidean inner product therefore gives
and hence . Monotonicity of and another Cauchy-Schwarz inequality now yield
This reasoning holds on for every simultaneously, proving the asserted probability. In combination with part (a), it also gives
Only the supplied simultaneous confidence set coverage and the optimistic choice are needed here. No claim that the displayed linear estimator is automatically a suitable estimator for a nonlinear link is required: its coverage was an explicit hypothesis.