Solving a special case of conservative problems by secant-like methods (Q2571944)

For nonlinear operator equations in Banach space the authors consider a relaxed form of a general secant method. Convergence is proved and a priori error bounds are obtained by means of the type of recurrence relations used by \textit{J. M. Gutiérrez} and \textit{M. A. Hernandez} [Appl. Math. Lett. 10, 63-65 (1997; Zbl 0883.65050)] for Chebyshev's method. The results are applied to conservative systems of the form \({\ddot x} + \Phi(x(t)) = 0\), \(x(0) = x(1) = 0\).