Extending the Applicability of Highly Efficient Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations and Their Applications.

Numerous three-step methods of high convergence order have been developed to produce sequences approximating solutions of equations usually defined on the Euclidean space with a finite dimension. The local convergence order is determined by Taylor expansions requiring the existence of derivatives that are not present on the methods. The more interesting semi-local convergence analysis for these methods has not been considered before. The semi-local is also provided based on generalized ω -continuity conditions on the derivative of the operator involved and the majorizing sequences, thus limiting their usage to only solving equations with operators that are many times differentiable. However, these methods may convergence to a solution of the equation even if these high-order derivatives do not exist. That is why a methodology is utilized on two sixth convergence order methods and in the more general setting of a Banach space. This time, the convergence depends only on the operators and the first derivative on the method. Therefore, by this methodology the applicability of the methods is in the extended area. Although this methodology is demonstrated on two competing and efficient methods, it can also be utilized for the same reasons on other methods involving inverses of operators that are linear. This is the motivation and novelty of the paper. The numerical applications further validate the theoretical results both in the local as well as the semi-local convergence case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]