Tikhonov regularization of a nonhomogeneous first-order evolution equation

Abstract

We consider a nonhomogeneous first-order evolution equation governed by a maximal monotone operator $ A $ in a Hilbert space in the presence of a Tikhonov regularization term. We study the existence and strong convergence of weak solutions to such systems. With boundedness conditions on the central path or on the solution trajectory, without assuming the zero set of $ A $ to be nonempty and with suitable assumptions on the Tikhonov regularization coefficient, we prove that the weak solutions to the system converge strongly to the element of least norm in the zero set of $ A $. As a consequence, we provide sufficient conditions where the boundedness of the weak solutions to the nonhomogeneous Tikhonov system is equivalent to the zero set of $ A $ to be nonempty. Our work is motivated by [4,17,22] and extends some results by those authors.