New semilocal and local convergence analysis for the Secant method

Abstract

We present a new convergence analysis, for the Secant method in order to approximate a locally unique solution of a nonlinear equation in a Banach space. Our idea uses Lipschitz and center-Lipschitz instead of just Lipschitz conditions in the convergence analysis. The new convergence analysis leads to more precise error bounds and to a better information on the location of the solution than the corresponding ones in earlier studies such as [2,6,9,11,14,15,17,20,22-26]. Numerical examples validating the theoretical results are also provided in this study. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.