Paper Title:

An Improved Mesh Independence Principle for Solving Equations and their Discretizations using Newton's Method

Author(s):

Ioannis K. Argyros

Cameron university,
Department of Mathematics Sciences,
Lawton, OK 73505,
USA
iargyros@cameron.edu  

Abstract:

We improve the mesh independence principle [1] which states that when Newton's method is applied to an equation on a Banach space as well as to their finite--dimensional discretization there is a difference of at most one between the number of steps required by the two processes to converge to within a given error tolerance. Here using a combination of Lipschitz and center Lipschitz continuity assumptions instead of just Lipschitz conditions we show that the minimum number of steps required can be at least as small as in earlier works. Some numerical examples are provided whereas our results compare favorably with earlier ones.

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