A note on \Gamma-convergence of Tikhonov functionals for nonlinear inverse problems

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Authors: Alexey Belenkin, Michael Hartz, Thomas Schuster 

Publication date: 11 August 2022

Abstract: We consider variational regularization of nonlinear inverse problems in Banach spaces using Tikhonov functionals. This article addresses the problem of $Gamma$-convergence of a family of Tikhonov functionals and assertions of the convergence of their respective infima. Such questions arise, if model uncertainties, inaccurate forward operators, finite dimensional approximations of the forward solutions and / or data, etc. make the evaluation of the original functional impossible and, thus, its minimizer not computable. But for applications it is of utmost importance that the minimizer of the replacement functional approximates the original minimizer. Under certain additional conditions this is satisfied if the approximated functionals converge to the original functional in the sense of $Gamma$-convergence. We deduce simple criteria in different topologies which guarantee $Gamma$-convergence as well as convergence of minimizing sequences.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical solution to inverse problems in abstract spaces (65J22) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

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