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Problems  for which at least one of the conditions below, which characterize  well-posed problems, is violated. The problem of determining a solution  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501201.png" /> in a metric space  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501202.png" /> (with metric  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501203.png" />) from  "initial  data"  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501204.png" /> in a metric space  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501205.png" /> (with metric  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501206.png" />) is said to be  well-posed on the pair of spaces <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501207.png" /> if: a) for every  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501208.png" /> there exists a  solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i0501209.png" />; b) the solution  is uniquely determined; and c) the problem is stable on the spaces  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012010.png" />, i.e.: For every  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012011.png" /> there is a  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012012.png" /> such that for any  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012013.png" /> it follows from  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012014.png" /> that <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012015.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012016.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012017.png" />.
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The  concept of a well-posed problem is due to J. Hadamard (1923), who took  the point of view that every mathematical problem corresponding to some  physical or technological problem must be well-posed. In fact, what  physical interpretation can a solution have if an arbitrary small change  in the data can lead to large changes in the solution? Moreover, it  would be difficult to apply approximation methods to such problems. This  put the expediency of studying ill-posed problems in doubt.
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However,  this point of view, which is natural when applied to certain  time-depended phenomena, cannot be extended to all problems. The following problems are unstable in the metric of <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012018.png" />, and therefore  ill-posed: the solution of integral equations of the first kind;  differentiation of functions known only approximately; numerical  summation of Fourier series when their coefficients are known  approximately in the metric of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012019.png" />; the Cauchy  problem for the Laplace equation; the problem of analytic continuation  of functions; and the inverse problem in gravimetry. Other ill-posed  problems are the solution of systems of linear algebraic equations when  the system is ill-conditioned; the minimization of functionals having  non-convergent minimizing sequences; various problems in linear  programming and optimal control; design of optimal systems and  optimization of constructions (synthesis problems for antennas and other  physical systems); and various other control problems described by  differential equations (in particular, differential games). Various  physical and technological questions lead to the problems listed (see  {{Cite|TiArAr}}).
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A broad class of so-called inverse problems that arise in physics, technology and other branches of  science, in particular, problems of data processing of physical  experiments, belongs to the class of ill-posed problems. Let <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012020.png" /> be a  characteristic quantity of the phenomenon (or object) to be studied. In a  physical experiment the quantity <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012021.png" /> is frequently  inaccessible to direct measurement, but what is measured is a certain  transform <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012022.png" /> (also called  outcome). For the interpretation of the results it is necessary to  determine <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012023.png" /> from <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012024.png" />, that is, to  solve the equation
 
 
 
<table class="eq"  style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012025.png"  /></td> <td valign="top"  style="width:5%;text-align:right;">(1)</td></tr></table>
 
 
 
Problems  of solving an equation (1) are often called pattern recognition  problems. Problems leading to the minimization of functionals (design of  antennas and other systems or constructions, problems of optimal  control and many others) are also called synthesis problems.
 
 
 
Suppose  that in a mathematical model for some physical experiments the object  to be studied (the phenomenon) is characterized by an element <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012026.png" /> (a function, a  vector) belonging to a set <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012027.png" /> of possible  solutions in a metric space <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012028.png" />. Suppose that  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012029.png" /> is inaccessible  to direct measurement and that what is measured is a transform, <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012030.png" />, <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012031.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012032.png" /> is the image of  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012033.png" /> under the  operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012034.png" />. Evidently,  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012035.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012036.png" /> is the operator  inverse to <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012037.png" />. Since <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012038.png" /> is obtained by  measurement, it is known only approximately. Let <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012039.png" /> be this  approximate value. Under these conditions the question can only be that  of finding a  "solution"  of the equation
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012040.png"  /></td> <td valign="top"  style="width:5%;text-align:right;">(2)</td></tr></table>
 
 
 
approximating <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012041.png" />.
 
 
 
In  many cases the operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012042.png" /> is such that its  inverse <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012043.png" /> is not  continuous, for example, when <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012044.png" /> is a  completely-continuous operator in a Hilbert space, in particular an  integral operator of the form
 
 
 
<table class="eq"  style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012045.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
Under these  conditions one cannot take, following classical ideas, an exact solution  of (2), that is, the element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012046.png" />, as an  approximate  "solution"  to <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012047.png" />. In fact: a) such  a solution need not exist on <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012048.png" />, since <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012049.png" /> need not belong  to <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012050.png" />; and b) such a  solution, if it exists, need not be stable under small changes of  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012051.png" /> (due to the fact  that <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012052.png" /> is not  continuous) and, consequently, need not have a physical interpretation.  The problem (2) then is ill-posed.
 
 
 
==Numerical methods for solving ill-posed problems.==
 
For  ill-posed problems of the form (1) the question arises: What is meant  by an approximate solution? Clearly, it should be so defined that it is  stable under small changes of the original information. A second  question is: What algorithms are there for the construction of such  solutions? Answers to these basic questions were given by A.N. Tikhonov  (see {{Cite|Ti}}, {{Cite|Ti2}}).
 
 
 
The  selection method. In some cases an approximate solution of (1) can be  found by the selection method. It consists of the following: From the  class of possible solutions <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012053.png" /> one selects an  element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012054.png" /> for which <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012055.png" /> approximates the  right-hand side of (1) with required accuracy. For the desired  approximate solution one takes the element <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012056.png" />. The  question arises: When is this method applicable, that is, when does
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012057.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
imply that
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012058.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
where  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012059.png" /> as <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012060.png" />? This holds under  the conditions that the solution of (1) is unique and that <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012061.png" /> is compact (see  {{Cite|Ti3}}). On the basis of these arguments one has formulated  the concept (or the condition) of being Tikhonov well-posed, also  called conditionally well-posed (see {{Cite|LaLa}}). As applied to  (1), a problem is said to be conditionally well-posed if it is known  that for the exact value of the right-hand side <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012062.png" /> there exists a  unique solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012063.png" /> of (1) belonging  to a given compact set <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012064.png" />. In this case  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012065.png" /> is continuous on  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012066.png" />, and if instead  of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012067.png" /> an element  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012068.png" /> is known such  that <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012069.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012070.png" />, then as an  approximate solution of (1) with right-hand side <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012071.png" /> one can take  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012072.png" />. As <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012073.png" />, <img  al
 
ign="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012074.png" /> tends to <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012075.png" />.
 
 
 
In  many cases the approximately known right-hand side <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012076.png" /> does not belong  to <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012077.png" />. Under these  conditions equation (1) does not have a classical solution. As an  approximate solution one takes then a generalized solution, a so-called  quasi-solution (see {{Cite|Iv}}). A quasi-solution of (1) on  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012078.png" /> is an element  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012079.png" /> that minimizes  for a given <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012080.png" /> the functional  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012081.png" /> on <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012082.png" /> (see  {{Cite|Iv2}}). If <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012083.png" /> is compact, then a  quasi-solution exist for any <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012084.png" />, and if in  addition <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012085.png" />, then a  quasi-solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012086.png" /> coincides with  the classical (exact) solution of (1). The existence of quasi-solutions  is guaranteed only when the set <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012087.png" /> of possible  solutions is compact.
 
 
 
The regularization method. For a  number of applied problems leading to (1) a typical situation is that  the set <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012088.png" /> of possible  solutions is not compact, the operator <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012089.png" /> is not  continuous on <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012090.png" />, and changes of  the right-hand side of (1) connected with the approximate character can  cause the solution to go out of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012091.png" />. Such problems  are called essentially ill-posed. An approach has been worked out to  solve ill-posed problems that makes it possible to construct numerical  methods that approximate solutions of essentially ill-posed problems of  the form (1) which are stable under small changes of the data. In this  context, both the right-hand side <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012092.png" /> and the operator  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012093.png" /> should be among  the data.
 
 
 
In what follows, for simplicity of exposition  it is assumed that the operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012094.png" /> is known exactly.  At the basis of the approach lies the concept of a regularizing  operator (see {{Cite|Ti2}}, {{Cite|TiArAr}}). An operator  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012095.png" /> from <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012096.png" /> to <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012097.png" /> is said to be a  regularizing operator for the equation <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012098.png" /> (in a  neighbourhood of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i05012099.png" />) if it has the  following properties: 1) there exists a <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120100.png" /> such  that the operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120101.png" /> is defined for  every <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120102.png" />, <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120103.png" />, and for any  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120104.png" /> such that  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120105.png" />; and 2) for  every <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120106.png" /> there exists a  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120107.png" /> such that  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120108.png" /> implies <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120109.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120110.png" />.
 
 
 
Sometimes  it is convenient to use another definition of a regularizing operator,  comprising the previous one. An operator <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120111.png" /> from  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120112.png" /> to <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120113.png" />, depending on a  parameter <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120114.png" />, is said to be a  regularizing operator (or regularization operator) for the equation  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120115.png" /> (in a  neighbourhood of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120116.png" />) if it has the  following properties: 1) there exists a <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120117.png" /> such  that <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120118.png" /> is defined for  every <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120119.png" /> and any <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120120.png" /> for which  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120121.png" />; and 2) there  exists a function <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120122.png" /> of <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120123.png" /> such that for  any <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120124.png" /> there is a  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120125.png" /> such that if  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120126.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120127.png" />, then <img  align="absmiddle" border
 
="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120128.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120129.png" />. In this  definition it is not assumed that the operator <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120130.png" /> is  globally single-valued.
 
 
 
If <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120131.png" />, then  as an approximate solution of (1) with an approximately known  right-hand side <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120132.png" /> one can take the  element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120133.png" /> obtained by  means of the regularizing operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120134.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120135.png" /> is compatible  with the error of the initial data <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120136.png" /> (see  {{Cite|Ti}}, {{Cite|Ti2}}, {{Cite|TiArAr}}). This is  said to be a regularized solution of (1). The numerical parameter  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120137.png" /> is called the  regularization parameter. As <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120138.png" />, the regularized  approximate solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120139.png" /> tends (in the  metric of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120140.png" />) to the exact  solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120141.png" />.
 
 
 
Thus,  the task of finding approximate solutions of (1) that are stable under  small changes of the right-hand side reduces to: a) finding a  regularizing operator; and b) determining the regularization parameter  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120142.png" /> from additional  information on the problem, for example, the size of the error with  which the right-hand side <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120143.png" /> is given.
 
 
 
The  construction of regularizing operators. It is assumed that the equation  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120144.png" /> has a unique  solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120145.png" />. Suppose that  instead of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120146.png" /> the equation  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120147.png" /> is solved and  that <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120148.png" />. Since <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120149.png" />, the approximate  solution of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120150.png" /> is looked for in  the class <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120151.png" /> of elements  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120152.png" /> such that  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120153.png" />. This <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120154.png" /> is the set of  possible solutions. As an approximate solution one cannot take an  arbitrary element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120155.png" /> from <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120156.png" />, since such a  "solution"  is not unique and is, generally speaking, not continuous in  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120157.png" />. As a selection  principle for the possible solutions ensuring that one obtains an  element (or elements) from <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120158.png" /> depending  continuously on <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120159.png" /> a
 
nd tending to  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120160.png" /> as <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120161.png" />, one uses the  so-called variational principle (see {{Cite|Ti}}). Let <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120162.png" /> be a continuous  non-negative functional defined on a subset <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120163.png" /> of  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120164.png" /> that is  everywhere-dense in <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120165.png" /> and is such  that: a) <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120166.png" />; and b) for  every <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120167.png" /> the set of  elements <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120168.png" /> in <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120169.png" /> for which  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120170.png" />, is compact in  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120171.png" />. Functionals  having these properties are said to be stabilizing functionals for  problem (1). Let <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120172.png" /> be a stabilizing  functional defined on a subset <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120173.png" /> of <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120174.png" />. (<img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120175.png" /> can be the whole  of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120176.png" />.) Among the  elements of <img align="absmid
 
dle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120177.png" /> one looks for  one (or several) that minimize(s) <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120178.png" /> on <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120179.png" />. The existence  of such an element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120180.png" /> can be proved  (see {{Cite|TiArAr}}). It can be regarded as the result of applying a  certain operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120181.png" /> to the  right-hand side of the equation <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120182.png" />, that is,  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120183.png" />. Then <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120184.png" /> is a  regularizing operator for equation (1). In practice the search for  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120185.png" /> can be carried  out in the following manner: under mild additional restrictions on  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120186.png" />  (quasi-monotonicity of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120187.png" />, see  {{Cite|TiArAr}}) it can be proved that <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120188.png" /> is  attained on elements <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120189.png" /> for which  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120190.png" />. An element  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120191.png" /> is a solution to  the problem of minimizing <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120192.png" /> given <img  align="absmiddle" bor
 
der="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120193.png" />, that is, a  solution of a problem of conditional extrema, which can be solved using  Lagrange's multiplier method and minimization of the functional
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120194.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
For any  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120195.png" /> one can prove  that there is an element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120196.png" /> minimizing  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120197.png" />. The parameter  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120198.png" /> is determined  from the condition <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120199.png" />. If there is an  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120200.png" /> for which  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120201.png" />, then the  original variational problem is equivalent to that of minimizing <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120202.png" />, which can be  solved by various methods on a computer (for example, by solving the  corresponding Euler equation for <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120203.png" />). The element  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120204.png" /> minimizing  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120205.png" /> can be regarded  as the result of applying to the right-hand side of the equation <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120206.png" /> a certain  operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120207.png" /> depending on  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120208.png" />, that is,  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120209.png" /> in which <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120210.png" /> is determined by  the discrepancy relation <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="/legacyima
 
ges/i/i050/i050120/i050120211.png" />. Then <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120212.png" /> is a  regularizing operator for (1). Equivalence of the original variational  problem with that of finding the minimum of <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120213.png" />  holds, for example, for linear operators <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120214.png" />. For  non-linear operators <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120215.png" /> this need not be  the case (see {{Cite|GoLeYa}}).
 
 
 
The so-called  smoothing functional <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120216.png" /> can be  introduced formally, without connecting it with a conditional extremum  problem for the functional <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120217.png" />, and for an  element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120218.png" /> minimizing it  sought on the set <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120219.png" />. This poses the  problem of finding the regularization parameter <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120220.png" /> as a function of  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120221.png" />, <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120222.png" />, such that the  operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120223.png" /> determining the  element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120224.png" /> is regularizing  for (1). Under certain conditions (for example, when it is known that  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120225.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120226.png" /> is a linear  operator) such a function exists and can be found from the relation  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120227.png" />. There are also  other methods for finding <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120228.png" />.
 
 
 
Let  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120229.png" /> be a class of  non-negative non-decreasing continuous functions on <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120230.png" />, <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120231.png" /> a solution of  (1) with right-hand side <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120232.png" />, and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120233.png" /> a continuous  operator from <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120234.png" /> to <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120235.png" />. For any  positive number <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120236.png" /> and functions  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120237.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120238.png" /> from <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120239.png" /> such that  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120240.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120241.png" />, there exists a  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120242.png" /> such that for  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120243.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120244.png" /> it follows from  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120245.png" /> that <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120246.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120247.png" /> for all <img  align="absmiddle" border=
 
"0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120248.png" /> for which  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120249.png" />.
 
 
 
Methods  for finding the regularization parameter depend on the additional  information available on the problem. If the error of the right-hand  side of the equation for <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120250.png" /> is known, say  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120251.png" />, then in  accordance with the preceding it is natural to determine <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120252.png" /> by the  discrepancy, that is, from the relation <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120253.png" />.
 
 
 
The  function <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120254.png" /> is monotone and  semi-continuous for every <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120255.png" />. If <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120256.png" /> is a linear  operator, <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120257.png" /> a Hilbert space  and <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120258.png" /> a  strictly-convex functional (for example, quadratic), then the element  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120259.png" /> is unique and  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120260.png" /> is a  single-valued function. Under these conditions, for every positive  number <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120261.png" />, where <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120262.png" />, there is an  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120263.png" /> such that  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120264.png" /> (see  {{Cite|TiArAr}}).
 
 
 
However, for a non-linear  operator <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120265.png" /> the equation  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120266.png" /> may have no  solution (see {{Cite|GoLeYa}}).
 
 
 
The regularization  method is closely connected with the construction of splines (cf.  [[Spline|Spline]]). For example, the problem of finding a function  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120267.png" /> with  piecewise-continuous second-order derivative on <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120268.png" /> that minimizes  the functional <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120269.png" /> and takes given  values <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120270.png" /> on a grid  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120271.png" />, is equivalent  to the construction of a spline of the second degree.
 
 
 
A  regularizing operator can be constructed by spectral methods (see  {{Cite|TiArAr}}, {{Cite|GoLeYa}}), by means of the classical  integral transforms in the case of equations of convolution type (see  {{Cite|Ar}}, {{Cite|TiArAr}}), by the method of  quasi-mappings (see {{Cite|LaLi}}), or by the iteration method  (see {{Cite|Kr}}). Necessary and sufficient conditions for the  existence of a regularizing operator are known (see  {{Cite|Vi}}).
 
 
 
Next, suppose that not only the  right-hand side of (1) but also the operator <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120272.png" /> is  given approximately, so that instead of the exact initial data <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120273.png" /> one has <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120274.png" />, where
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120275.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120276.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
Under these  conditions the procedure for obtaining an approximate solution is the  same, only instead of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120277.png" /> one has to  consider the functional
 
 
 
<table class="eq"  style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120278.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
and the  parameter <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120279.png" /> can be  determined, for example, from the relation (see {{Cite|TiArAr}})
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120280.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
If (1) has  an infinite set of solutions, one introduces the concept of a normal  solution. Suppose that <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120281.png" /> is a normed  space. Then one can take, for example, a solution <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120282.png" /> for which the  deviation in norm from a given element <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120283.png" /> is  minimal, that is,
 
 
 
<table class="eq"  style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120284.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
An  approximation to a normal solution that is stable under small changes in  the right-hand side of (1) can be found by the regularization method  described above. The class of problems with infinitely many solutions  includes degenerate systems of linear algebraic equations. So-called  badly-conditioned systems of linear algebraic equations can be regarded  as systems obtained from degenerate ones when the operator <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120285.png" /> is replaced by  its approximation <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120286.png" />. As a normal  solution of a corresponding degenerate system one can take a solution  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120287.png" /> of minimal norm  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120288.png" />. In the  smoothing functional one can take for <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120289.png" /> the  functional <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120290.png" />. Approximate  solutions of badly-conditioned systems can also be found by the regularization method with <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120291.png" /> (see  {{Cite|TiArAr}}).
 
 
 
Similar methods can be used to  solve a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind in the spectrum,  that is, when the parameter <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120292.png" /> of the equation  is equal to one of the eigen values of the kernel.
 
 
 
==Instability problems in the minimization of functionals.==
 
A  number of problems important in practice leads to the minimization of  functionals <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120293.png" />. One  distinguishes two types of such problems. In the first class one has to  find a minimal (or maximal) value of the functional. Many problems in  the design of optimal systems or constructions fall in this class. For  such problems it is irrelevant on what elements the required minimum is attained. Therefore, as approximate solutions of such problems one can  take the values of the functional <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120294.png" /> on any  minimizing sequence <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120295.png" />.
 
 
 
In  the second type of problems one has to find elements <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120296.png" /> on which the  minimum of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120297.png" /> is attained.  They are called problems of minimizing over the argument. E.g., the  minimizing sequences may be divergent. In these problems one cannot take  as approximate solutions the elements of minimizing sequences. Such  problems are called unstable or ill-posed. These include, for example,  problems of optimal control, in which the function to be optimized (the  object function) depends only on the phase variables.
 
 
 
Suppose  that <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120298.png" /> is a continuous  functional on a metric space <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120299.png" /> and that there  is an element <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120300.png" /> minimizing  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120301.png" />. A minimizing  sequence <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120302.png" /> of <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120303.png" /> is called  regularizing if there is a compact set <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120304.png" /> in  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120305.png" /> containing  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120306.png" />. If the  minimization problem for <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120307.png" /> has a unique  solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120308.png" />, then a  regularizing minimizing sequence converges to <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120309.png" />, and  under these conditions it is sufficient to exhibit algorithms for the  construction of regularizing minimizing sequences. This can be done by  using stabilizing functionals <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120310.png" />.
 
 
 
Let  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120311.png" /> be a stabilizing  functional defined on a set <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120312.png" />, let <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120313.png" /> and let <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120314.png" />. Frequently,  instead of <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120315.png" /> one takes its  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120317.png" />-approximation  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120318.png" /> relative to  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120319.png" />, that is, a  functional such that for every <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120320.png" />,
 
 
 
<table  class="eq" style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120321.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
Then for any  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120322.png" /> the problem of  minimizing the functional
 
 
 
<table class="eq"  style="width:100%;"> <tr><td valign="top"  style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120323.png"  /></td> </tr></table>
 
 
 
over the argument is stable.
 
 
 
Let  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120324.png" /> and <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120325.png" /> be  null-sequences such that <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120326.png" /> for every  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120327.png" />, and let <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120328.png" /> be a sequence of  elements minimizing <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120329.png" />. This is a  regularizing minimizing sequence for the functional <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120330.png" /> (see  {{Cite|TiArAr}}), consequently, it converges as <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120331.png" /> to an element  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120332.png" />. As approximate  solutions of the problems one can then take the elements <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120333.png" />.
 
 
 
Similarly approximate solutions of ill-posed problems in optimal control can be constructed.
 
 
 
In  applications ill-posed problems often occur where the initial data  contain random errors. For the construction of approximate solutions to  such classes both deterministic and probability approaches are possible  (see {{Cite|TiArAr}}, {{Cite|LaVa}}).
 
 
 
====References====
 
{|
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ar}}||valign="top"|  V.Ya. Arsenin,    "On a method for obtaining approximate solutions to convolution  integral equations of the first kind"  ''Proc. Steklov Inst. Math.'',  '''133'''  (1977)  pp. 31–48  ''Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklov.'', '''133'''  (1973)  pp. 33–51
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ba}}||valign="top"|  A.B.  Bakushinskii,  "A general method for constructing regularizing  algorithms for a linear ill-posed equation in Hilbert  space"  ''USSR  Comp. Math. Math. Phys.'', '''7''' :  3  (1968)  pp. 279–287  ''Zh.  Vychisl. Mat. i Mat. Fiz.'', '''7''' :  3  (1967)  pp.  672–677
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|GoLeYa}}||valign="top"|  A.V.  Goncharskii,  A.S. Leonov,  A.G. Yagoda,  "On the residual principle  for solving nonlinear ill-posed problems" ''Soviet Math. Dokl.'',  '''15'''  (1974)  pp. 166–168  ''Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR'', '''214''' :  3  (1974)  pp. 499–500
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Iv}}||valign="top"|  V.K. Ivanov,    "On ill-posed problems" ''Mat. Sb.'', '''61''' :  2  (1963)  pp.  211–223  (In Russian)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Iv2}}||valign="top"|  V.K. Ivanov,    "On linear problems which are not well-posed"  ''Soviet Math. Dokl.'',  '''3'''  (1962)  pp. 981–983  ''Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR'', '''145''' :  2  (1962)  pp. 270–272
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Kr}}||valign="top"|  A.V. Kryanev,    "The solution of incorrectly posed problems by methods of successive  approximations"  ''Soviet Math. Dokl.'', '''14'''  (1973)  pp. 673–676  ''Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR'', '''210''' : 1  pp.  20–22
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|LaLa}}||valign="top"|  M.M. [M.A.  Lavrent'ev] Lavrentiev,  "Some improperly posed problems of  mathematical physics", Springer  (1967)  (Translated from  Russian)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|LaLi}}||valign="top"|  R. Lattes,    J.L. Lions,  "Méthode de quasi-réversibilité et applications", Dunod  (1967)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|LaVa}}||valign="top"|  M.M.  Lavrent'ev,  V.G. Vasil'ev,  "The posing of certain improper problems  of mathematical physics"  ''Sib. Math. J.'', '''7''' :  3  (1966)  pp.  450–463  ''Sibirsk. Mat. Zh.'', '''7''' :  3  (1966)  pp.  559–576
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ti}}||valign="top"|  A.N. Tikhonov,    "Solution of incorrectly formulated problems and the regularization  method"  ''Soviet Math. Dokl.'', '''4'''  (1963)  pp. 1035–1038  ''Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR'', '''151''' :  3  (1963)  pp.  501–504
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ti2}}||valign="top"|  A.N. Tikhonov,    "Regularization of incorrectly posed problems"  ''Soviet Math. Dokl.'',  '''4'''  (1963)  pp. 1624–1627  ''Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR'', '''153''' :  1  (1963)  pp. 49–52
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ti3}}||valign="top"|  A.N. Tikhonov,    "On stability of inverse problems"  ''Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR'',  '''39''' :  5  (1943)  pp. 176–179  (In  Russian)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ti4}}||valign="top"|  A.N. Tikhonov,    "On the stability of the functional optimization problem"  ''USSR  Comp. Math. Math. Phys.'', '''6''' :  4  (1966)  pp. 28–33  ''Zh.  Vychisl. Mat. i Mat. Fiz.'', '''6''' :  4  (1966)  pp.  631–634
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|TiArAr}}||valign="top"|  A.N. Tikhonov,    V.I. [V.I. Arsenin] Arsenine,  "Solution of ill-posed problems",  Winston  (1977)  (Translated from  Russian)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Vi}}||valign="top"|  V.A. Vinokurov,    "On the regularization of discontinuous mappings"  ''USSR Comp. Math.  Math. Phys.'', '''11''' :  5  (1971)  pp. 1–21  ''Zh. Vychisl. Mat. i  Mat. Fiz.'', '''11''' :  5  (1971)  pp.  1097–1112
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
====Comments====
 
The  idea of conditional well-posedness was also found by B.L. Phillips  {{Cite|Ph}}; the expression "Tikhonov well-posed" is not used in the West.
 
 
 
Other problems that lead to ill-posed  problems in the sense described above are the [[Dirichlet  problem|Dirichlet problem]] for the wave equation, the  non-characteristic [[Cauchy problem|Cauchy problem]] for the heat  equation, the initial boundary value problem for the backward [[Heat  equation|heat equation]], inverse scattering problems  ({{Cite|CoKr}}), identification of parameters (coefficients) in  partial differential equations from over-specified data  ({{Cite|Ba2}}, {{Cite|EnGr}}), and computerized  tomography ({{Cite|Na2}}).
 
 
 
If <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120334.png" /> is a bounded  linear operator between Hilbert spaces, then, as also mentioned above,  regularization operators can be constructed via [[Spectral  theory|spectral theory]]: If <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120335.png" /> as <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120336.png" />, then under mild  assumptions, <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120337.png" /> is a  regularization operator (cf. {{Cite|Gr}}); for choices of the  regularization parameter leading to optimal convergence rates for such  methods see {{Cite|EnGf}}. For <img align="absmiddle"  border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120338.png" />, the  resulting method is called Tikhonov regularization: The regularized  solution <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120339.png" /> is defined via  <img align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120340.png" />. A variant of  this method in Hilbert scales has been developed in {{Cite|Na}}  with parameter choice rules given in {{Cite|Ne}}. The  parameter choice rule discussed in the article given by <img  align="absmiddle" border="0"  src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/i/i050/i050120/i050120341.png" /> is called the  discrepancy principle ({{Cite|Mo}}).
 
 
 
====References====
 
{|
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ba2}}||valign="top"|  J. Baumeister,    "Stable solution of inverse problems", Vieweg  (1986)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ba3}}||valign="top"|  H.P. Baltes  (ed.), ''Inverse source problems in optics'', Springer  (1978)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ba4}}||valign="top"|  H.P. Baltes  (ed.), ''Inverse scattering problems in optics'', Springer  (1980)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|BaGi}}||valign="top"|  G. Backus,    F. Gilbert,  "The resolving power of gross earth data"  ''Geophys. J.  R. Astr. Soc.'', '''16'''  (1968)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|BeBlSt}}||valign="top"|  J.V. Beck,    B. Blackwell,  C.R. StClair,  "Inverse heat conduction: ill posed  problems", Wiley  (1985)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|BoJo}}||valign="top"|  W.M. Boerner,    A.K. (eds.) Jordan,  "Inverse methods in electromagnetics"  ''IEEE  Trans. Antennas Propag.'', '''2'''  (1981)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ca}}||valign="top"|  J.R. Cann on,    "The one-dimensional heat equation", Addison-Wesley  (1984)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|CaSt}}||valign="top"|  A. Carasso,    A.P. Stone,  "Improperly posed boundary value problems", Pitman  (1975)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Co}}||valign="top"|  A.M. Cormak,    "Representation of a function by its line integrals with  some  radiological applications"  ''J. Appl. Phys.'', '''34'''  (1963)
 
|-
 
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|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|CoKr}}||valign="top"|  D.L. Colton,    R. Kress,  "Integral equation methods in scattering theory", Wiley  (1983)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|EnGf}}||valign="top"|  H.W. Engl,  H.  Gfrerer,  "A posteriori parameter choice for general regularization  methods for solving linear ill-posed problems"  ''Appl. Num. Math.'',  '''4'''  (1988)  pp. 395–417
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|EnGr}}||valign="top"|  H.W. Engl (ed.)  C.W. Groetsch (ed.), ''Inverse and ill-posed problems'', Acad. Press  (1987)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Gr}}||valign="top"|  C.W. Groetsch,    "The theory of Tikhonov regularization for Fredholm equations of the  first kind", Pitman  (1984)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Gr2}}||valign="top"|  C.W. Groetsch,    "The theory of Tikhonov regularization for Fredholm equations of the  first kind", Pitman  (1984)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|He}}||valign="top"|  G.T. Herman  (ed.), ''Image reconstruction from projections'', Springer  (1979)
 
|-
 
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|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Jo}}||valign="top"|  F. John,    "Continuous dependence on data for solutions of partial differential  equations with a prescribed bound"  ''Comm. Pure Appl. Math.'',  '''13'''  (1960)  pp. 551–585
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ka}}||valign="top"|  M. Kac,  "Can  one hear the shape of a drum?"  ''Amer. Math. Monthly'', '''73'''  (1966)  pp. 1–23
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|LaRoSh}}||valign="top"|  M.H.  Lavrent'ev,  V.G. Romanov,  S.P. Shishalskii,  "Ill-posed problems of  mathematical physics and analysis", Amer. Math. Soc.  (1986)  (Translated from Russian)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Mo}}||valign="top"|  V.A. Morozov,    "Methods for solving incorrectly posed problems", Springer  (1984)  (Translated from Russian)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Na}}||valign="top"|  F. Natterer,    "Error bounds for Tikhonov regularization in Hilbert scales"  ''Applic.  Analysis'', '''18'''  (1984)  pp.  29–37
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Na2}}||valign="top"|  F. Natterer,    "The mathematics of computerized tomography", Wiley  (1986)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ne}}||valign="top"|  A. Neubauer,    "An a-posteriori parameter choice for Tikhonov regularization in Hilbert  scales leading to optimal convergence rates"  ''SIAM J. Numer. Anal.'',  '''25'''  (1988)  pp. 1313–1326
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Pa}}||valign="top"|  L.E. Payne,    "Improperly posed problems in partial differential equations", SIAM  (1975)
 
|-
 
| valign="top"|{{Ref|Ph}}||valign="top"|  B.L. Phillips,    "A technique for the numerical solution of certain integral equations  of the first kind"  ''J. ACM'', '''9'''  (1962)  pp.  84–97
 
|-
 
|}
 

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