
30 Iterative Optimization in Inverse Problems
with interior U .Atthekth step of their method one minimizes a function
G
k
(x)=f(x)+d(x, x
k−1
) (2.9)
to get x
k
. Their distance d(x, y) is defined for x and y in U, and the gradient
with respect to the first variable, denoted ∇
1
d(x, y), is assumed to exist.
The distance d(x, y) is not assumed to be a Bregman distance. Instead, they
assume that the distance d has an associated induced proximal distance
H(a, b) ≥ 0, finite for a and b in U, with H(a, a)=0and
∇
1
d(b, a),c− b≤H(c, a) −H(c, b), (2.10)
for all c in U .
If d = D
h
,thatis,ifd is a Bregman distance, then from the equation
∇
1
d(b, a),c− b = D
h
(c, a) −