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# On Local Convergence of the Method of Alternating Projections

01 Apr 2016-Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Springer US)-Vol. 16, Iss: 2, pp 425-455

AbstractThe method of alternating projections is a classical tool to solve feasibility problems. Here we prove local convergence of alternating projections between subanalytic sets $$A,B$$A,B under a mild regularity hypothesis on one of the sets. We show that the speed of convergence is $${\mathcal {O}}(k^{-\rho })$$O(k-?) for some $$\rho \in (0,\infty )$$??(0,?).

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