Use the intended strong convexity bound . The original PDF omits on the right. The printed bound for every is impossible when , as shows. Equivalently, the intended bound is stated for unit vectors. The norm of is the operator norm induced by the Euclidean norm, or any matrix norm that bounds it.
Set
This function is , and its Hessian matrix satisfies
Part (i) therefore proves that is a convex function. The perturbation can use up the entire positive lower bound defining a strongly convex function; only convexity, rather than strict positivity of the Hessian matrix, is asserted.
Starting from , gradient descent repeatedly computes the gradient and updates
stopping when the gradient norm, step, or objective decrease is sufficiently small.
The Hessian bounds say that is -strongly convex and has -smooth gradient. With ,
Thus the iteration count is
convergence becomes slower linearly with the condition number .
For
the Hessian matrix is , so
Take
Then
whose Hessian is and whose condition number is .
Set . Expanding the square gives
The function is one-strongly convex, so its Fenchel conjugate is differentiable with one-Lipschitz gradient. The displayed identity therefore proves that the Moreau envelope is differentiable even when is nonsmooth.