Proper generalized decomposition for nonlinear convex problems in tensor Banach spaces (Q443852)

The paper is well structured and very well written. It provides a concise overview about proper generalized decomposition methods (PGD) and allows a good understanding of the topic even for unexperienced readers. The presented results concerning progressive and updated PGDs are supported by numerous examples. After the introduction (Section 1), which includes a summary of already known results, the authors outline the goal of their research that is associated with the minimization of an elliptic and differentiable functional over some reflexive tensor Banach space. Therefore, the authors introduce the idea of progressive and updated PGDs. The progressive PGD consists of defining a sequence of approximates within some tensor subset where the next iterate is defined as an optimal correction of the previous iterate w.r.t. the underlying functional, whereas the updated PGD uses this optimal correction to span an affine subspace within which the next iterate is then defined as the minimizer of the functional. Therefore, the necessary terms and definitions for tensor Banach spaces are presented in Section 2 such as rank-one tensors, tensor Banach space etc. Furthermore, it is illustrated on several examples how such tensor Banach spaces embed into their original spaces and are weakly closed. Section 3 then provides classical results for the minimization of an functional over some reflexive Banach space such as the existence of a solution under certain assumptions, e.g. the functional is weakly sequential lower semi-continuous and the preimage being a bounded, weakly closed set in an reflexive Banach space or the uniqueness of the minimizer in case of a Fréchet differentiable and elliptic functional. Section 4 is the main part of the paper that provides a detailed description of the above mentioned progressive and updated PGD followed by the convergence analysis for Fréchet differentiable, elliptic functionals that are weakly sequentially continuous over a tensor Banach space. The last section (Section 5) before the conclusion includes two examples, a singular value decomposition in Lebesgue spaces and a nonlinear Laplacian.