New aspects of ill-posedness classification in Banach spaces

Abstract

Motivated by a seminal paper of professor M. Z. Nashed published in 1987 on classification of ill-posed linear operator equations and distinguishing two types of ill-posedness in Banach and Hilbert spaces, we present, illustrate and justify a new classification scheme in this context. This scheme classifies bounded linear operators mapping between infinite-dimensional Banach spaces with respect to ill-posedness types, including non-injective operators that may have uncomplemented null-spaces. The hybrid case of strictly singular operators the range of which contains a closed infinite-dimensional subspace plays a prominent role there. By a series of new theorems we complement moreover the theory of $\ell^1$-regularization with respect to ill-posedness phenomena and shed some light on the role of weak*-to-weak continuity in the context of $\ell^1$-regularization for operators with uncomplemented null-space.