Computability of Solutions of Operator Equations

  • Authors:
  • Volker Bosserhoff

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Theoretische Informatik und Mathematik, Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We study operator equations within the Turing machine based framework for computability in analysis. Is there an algorithm that maps pairs (T,u) (where T is given in form of a program) to good approximate solutions of Tx=u? Here we consider the case when T is a bounded linear mapping of Hilbert spaces. We are in particular interested in computing the generalized inverseT^@?u which is the standard concept of solution in the theory of inverse problems. Typically, T^@? is discontinuous (i.e. the equation Tx=u is ill-posed) and hence no computable mapping. However, we will use effective versions of theorems from the theory of regularization to show that the mapping (T,T^*,u,@?T^@?u@?)@?T^@?u is computable. We then go on to study the computability of average-case solutions with respect to Gaussian measures which have been considered in information based complexity. Here T^@? is considered as an element of an L^2-space. We define suitable representations for such spaces and use the results from the first part of the paper to show that (T,T^*,@?T^@?@?"L"^"2)@?T^@? is computable.