English

Affine nonexpansive operators, Attouch-Th\'era duality and the Douglas-Rachford algorithm

Optimization and Control 2016-04-01 v1

Abstract

The Douglas-Rachford splitting algorithm was originally proposed in 1956 to solve a system of linear equations arising from the discretization of a partial differential equation. In 1979, Lions and Mercier brought forward a very powerful extension of this method suitable to solve optimization problems. In this paper, we revisit the original affine setting. We provide a powerful convergence result for finding a zero of the sum of two maximally monotone affine relations. As a by product of our analysis, we obtain results concerning the convergence of iterates of affine nonexpansive mappings as well as Attouch-Th\'era duality. Numerous examples are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1603.09418,
  title  = {Affine nonexpansive operators, Attouch-Th\'era duality and the Douglas-Rachford algorithm},
  author = {Heinz H. Bauschke and Brett Lukens and Walaa M. Moursi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09418},
  year   = {2016}
}
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