Modified Newton's method with third-order convergence and multiple roots

  • Authors:
  • M. Frontini;E. Sormani

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Mathematica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, Milano 32 20133, Italy;Dipartimento di Mathematica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, Milano 32 20133, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In recent papers (Appl. Math. Comput. 140 (2003) 419-426; Appl. Math. Lett. 13 (2000) 87-93) a new modification of the Newton's method (mNm) which produces iterative methods with order of convergence three have been proposed. Here we study the order of convergence of such methods when we have multiple roots. We prove that the order of convergence of the mNm go down to one but, when the multiplicity p is known, it may be rised up to two by using two different types of correction. When p is unknown we show that the two most efficient methods in the family of the mNm converge faster than the classical Newton's method.