An extension of the proximal point algorithm with Bregman distances on Hadamard manifolds

In this paper we present an extension of the proximal point algorithm with Bregman distances to solve constrained minimization problems with quasiconvex and convex objective function on Hadamard manifolds. The proposed algorithm is a modified and extended version of the one presented in Papa Quiroz and Oliveira (J Convex Anal 16(1): 49–69, <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">2009</CitationRef>). An advantage of the proposed algorithm, for the nonconvex case, is that in each iteration the algorithm only needs to find a stationary point of the proximal function and not a global minimum. For that reason, from the computational point of view, the proposed algorithm is more practical than the earlier proximal method. Another advantage, for the convex case, is that using minimal condition on the problem data as well as on the proximal parameters we get the same convergence results of the Euclidean proximal algorithm using Bregman distances. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013