Notation that best reveals the choice of a particular function among many

Bigwig

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I'm writing a paper that details the strategies scientists use to choose the functions which map the indications of measurement devices into the state space, i.e. how scientists select a backward calibration function. These functions take as their input a representation of the device indication and output a system state. The strategy tries to find some function h that, when y (the device indication represented numerically) is taken as h’s argument, minimizes the strictly positive difference between the output of h(y) and the true state of the system. What is a notation that can best represent this?

One thought was simply:

Backwards calibration function = min F[h(y)-x]

but this just instructs one to minimize F, and not to find the h() that minimizes F.

I've found this notation:

BCF = arg minh F[h(y)-x]

I suppose this is a functional. But why is the min applied to h and not F? The other problem I have is none of my readers recognize this notion. Is there a better one?
 
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