What do multistep methods approximate? (Q1110997): Difference between revisions

A consistent strictly stable multistep multiderivative method for first- order differential equations is considered. It is shown that it does not directly approximate the flow of the vector field but it approximates a mapping related to it in a strong sense. The approximation properties of that mapping are applied to the question of invariant circles near hyperbolic periodic trajectories of an ordinary differential equation.