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For a bounded linear regularization operator $R_{\alpha }$ and noisy data with $\Vert f_{\delta }-f\Vert \le \delta$, the triangle inequality givesThe first term is noise amplification; the second is the approximation bias on exact data. Thus $\alpha (\delta )\to 0$ and $\delta \Vert R_{\alpha (\delta )}\Vert \to 0$ suffice for a convergent regularization of an inverse problem, provided $R_{\alpha }$ is consistent on exact data.

A norm assigns a nonnegative length to each vector, is zero only at the zero vector, is absolutely homogeneous, and satisfies the triangle inequality.

For a finite Markov chain with transition matrix $P$, define $\bar{d}(t)={\max }_{x,y}\Vert P^t(x,\cdot )-P^t(y,\cdot ){\Vert }_{\mathrm{TV}}$. If $\pi$ is a stationary distribution and $d(t)={\max }_x\Vert P^t(x,\cdot )-\pi {\Vert }_{\mathrm{TV}}$, then $d(t)\le \bar{d}(t)\le 2d(t)$. The first bound follows by writing $\pi ={\sum }_y\pi (y)P^t(y,\cdot )$ and using the triangle inequality; the second uses the triangle inequality through $\pi$.