Convergence and numerical analysis of a family of two-step Steffensen's methods (Q2485416)

The authors consider the problem of approximating locally the solution of a nonlinear equation \(f(x)=0\) where \(f\) is a continuous operator defined on a domain of a Banach space. They provide suffcient conditions for the semilocal convergence of a family of two-step Steffensen's iterative methods. The basic idea is to replace the Fréchet derivative by a divided difference formula based on the previous iterates. There is no general definition for the divided difference approximation but for the convergence results certain assumptions are needed. The paper mentions some applications in finite-dimensional spaces in which fairly standard finite difference schemes are used.