Abstract
In this paper we consider a combination of Newton's method with linear Tikhonov regularization, linear Landweber iteration and truncated SVD, for regularizing an abstract, nonlinear, ill-posed operator equation. We show that under certain smoothness conditions on the nonlinear operator, these methods converge locally. For perturbed data we propose an a priori stopping rule, that guarantees convergence of the iterates to a solution, as the noise level goes to zero. Under appropriate closeness and smoothness assumptions on the starting value and the solution, we obtain convergence rates.