The perturbation of consistent least squares problems (Q1112909)

This paper establishes that if \(Ax=b\) is consistent, then the minimum norm least squares solution of \((A+\delta A)x=(b+\delta b),\) \(x\delta\), is close to a solution of \(Ax=b\) for sufficiently small \(\delta\) A, \(\delta\) b. Examples of this behavior are given but the results' usefulness is not clear since \(\| x\|\) will generally be unbounded as \(\| \delta A\|\), \(\| \delta b\|\) go to zero.