Mesh independence of Newton-like methods for infinite dimensional problems (Q1184926)

The authors, motivated by approximating solutions to integral equations with continuous kernels, study globally convergent modifications of Newton's method. Of interest are methods which use inner products (and thus induce a Hilbert space structure) or norms other than the Banach space norm in which the problem is set. The authors are mainly interested in the relationship between the convergence behavior of the method applied to an infinite-dimensional problem and applied to its finite-dimensional discretization. They argue that if the discretization is properly done, the convergence behavior of the method is the same for the infinite-dimensional problem and for the discrete problem and is in fact mesh independent.