Variational smoothness assumptions in convergence rate theory -- an overview (Q2848402)

This article reviews a concept of measuring smoothness of solutions to operator equations and its application. This concept is known as variational smoothness assumption (VSA) and has been employed in nonlinear ill-posed problems for analyzing Tikhonov type regularization methods, especially for the determination of convergence rates in Banach spaces.NEWLINENEWLINEThis paper consists of four chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion. The general ill-posed problem formulation is given in the introduction. In the next section, variational smoothness assumptions are introduced and convergence rates are derived. Section 3 shows relations to source conditions, which are the classical concept for proving convergence rates. In Section 4, approximate source conditions, which are an extension of source conditions, are discussed. Some specializations in Hilbert space settings as well as some remarks on so-called converse results are collected in Section 5.NEWLINENEWLINEAs footnote, it is to be noted \textit{T. Hohage} and \textit{F. Werner} in [Numer. Math. 123, No. 4, 745--779 (2013; Zbl 1280.65047)] demonstrated that VSA yields convergence rates not only for Tikhonov regularizations, but also for Newton-type methods.