Analysis of Bounded Variation Penalty Methodsfor Ill - Posed

This paper presents an abstract analysis of bounded variation (BV) methods for ill-posed operator equations Au = z. Let T(u) def = kAu ? zk 2 + J(u); where the penalty, or \regularization", parameter > 0 and the functional J(u) is the BV norm or seminorm of u, also known as the total variation of u. Under mild restrictions on the operator A and the functional J(u), it is shown that the functional T(u) has a unique minimizer which is stable with respect to certain perturbations in the data z, the operator A, the parameter , and the functional J(u). In addition, convergence results are obtained which apply when these perturbations vanish and the regularization parameter is chosen appropriately.