  In compressive sensing, the basis pursuit algorithm aims to find the sparsest
solution to an underdetermined linear equation system. In this paper, we
generalize basis pursuit to finding the sparsest solution to higher order
nonlinear systems of equations, called nonlinear basis pursuit. In contrast to
the existing nonlinear compressive sensing methods, the new algorithm that
solves the nonlinear basis pursuit problem is convex and not greedy. The novel
algorithm enables the compressive sensing approach to be used for a broader
range of applications where there are nonlinear relationships between the
measurements and the unknowns.
