A new method for solving a system of the nonlinear equations (Q2572731)

In order to solve a system of nonlinear equations (1) \(F(x)=0\), with \(F=(f_1, f_2,\dots, f_n)\) and \(x=(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n)\), where \(f_i, \,i=1,2,\dots, n\) are nonlinear functions in \(C(A)\), the space of all real valued functions on \(A=\prod_{i=1}^{n}[a_i,b_i]\), this problem is converted into an optimal control problem in the discrete case. The key result in getting this transformation (Theorem 1.1) ensures that if there exists an optimal solution for a certain variational problem associated to the given system by means of an error functional, then the exact solution of (1) is obtained, too. The new problem is further transformed into a measure theory problem, i.e., a problem of finding an optimal measure \(\mu^*\) over a set of Radon measures. This optimal measure \(\mu^*\) is then approximated by a finite combination of atomic measures, a procedure which actually consists in considering instead of an infinite-dimensional programming problem, a finite-dimensional one. The latter problem is numerically solved by dividing, at the first step, the interval \(J=[0, N]\) into two subintervals \(J_1=[0, N-1]\) and \(J_2=[N-1, N]\). Consistent and detailed numerical examples (Example 5.1 and Example 5.2) are also presented in Section 5 of the paper.