Enhancing Equation Solving: Extending the Applicability of Steffensen-Type Methods

Abstract

Local convergence analysis is mostly carried out using the Taylor series expansion approach, which requires the utilization of high-order derivatives, not iterative methods. There are other limitations to this approach, such as the following: the analysis is limited to finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces; no a priori computable error bounds on the distance or uniqueness of the solution results are provided. The local convergence analysis in this paper positively addresses these concerns in the more general setting of a Banach space. The convergence conditions involve only the operators in the methods. The more important semi-local convergence analysis not studied before is developed by using majorizing sequences. Both types of convergence analyses are based on the concept of generalized continuity. Although we study a certain class of methods, the same approach applies to extend the applicability of other schemes along the same lines.