Sixth-order superstable two-step methods for second-order initial-value problems (Q1119349)

A one parameter family of implicit two-step methods of order six are given for the numerical integration of second order differential equations. The scheme is a mixture of a linear two-step method and of a Runge-Kutta formula. A stability analysis is performed for linear differential equations with real coefficients. It is shown that whenever the exact solution of the linear differential equation stay bounded then the roots of the characteristic polynomial of the numerical scheme are less than one in modulus. The truncation error is given.