Newton's method under a weak smoothness assumption (Q1176798)

The classical Newton-Kantorovich method for solving \(F(x)=0\), \(F: D\subseteq X\to Y\), \(X\), \(Y\) being Banach spaces, imposes the Lipschitz condition \(\| F'(x')-F'(x)\|\leq c\| x'-x\|\), for \(x,x'\in D\), as a sufficient one for the Newton sequence \(x_{n+1}=x_ n-F'(x_ n)^{-1}F(x_ n)\), \(n=0,1,2,\dots\), to converge. It is obvious that this condition does not hold in some cases, as for example for the equation: \(x^{3/2}=0\), bu the Newton sequence converges. In this paper the authors study some weaker conditions that are sufficient too, but which in the Lipschitz case coincide with or improve the known results.