FINITENESS OF THE AREA OF BASINS OF ATTRACTION OF RELAXED NEWTON METHOD FOR CERTAIN HOLOMORPHIC FUNCTIONS

Abstract

For a nonconstant function F and a real number h∈]0, 1] the relaxed Newton's method NF,h of F is an iterative algorithm for finding the zeroes of F. We show that when relaxed Newton's method is applied to complex function F(z)=P(z)eQ(z), where P and Q are polynomials, the basin of attraction of a root of F has finite area if the degree of Q exceeds or equals 3. The key point is that NF,h is a rational map with a parabolic fixed point at infinity.