Component-wise convergence of quasilinearization method for nonlinear boundary value problems (Q1210047)

The author considers the boundary value problem (1) \(x'=f(t,x)\), \(t\in [a,b]\), \(F[x]=0\), where \(x\) and \(f(t,x)\) are \(n\)-dimensional vectors and \(F\) is an operator from \(C[a,b]\) into \(\mathbb{R}^ n\), \(C[a,b]\) is the space of all real \(n\) vector functions continuous on \([a,b]\). The main results of this paper are a priori sufficient conditions so that the quasilinear and approximate quasilinear iteration methods for (1) converge to its unique solution. The importance of the results is illustrated by the problem \(u''+u+(u-t)^ 3=t+0.1\), \(u(-1)=-0.9\), \(u(1)=1.1\).