An element is a -minimizing solution when
It satisfies the source condition in variational regularization when there is a such that
where is the subdifferential of the convex functional .
The exact solution is feasible because
The feasible set is convex and weakly closed. A minimizing sequence has bounded residual and bounded ; the coercivity assumption from part (a), applied to a fixed positive weighted objective, makes it bounded in . Reflexivity gives a weakly convergent subsequence, and weak lower semicontinuity of the residual and keeps its limit feasible and minimizing.
Since minimizes over ,
The source condition in variational regularization and feasibility then yield
Thus the claimed constant is .