The secant method for nondifferentiable operators (Q1861778)

For a nonlinear operator \(F\) between Banach spaces the authors prove a semilocal convergence result for secant methods involving a general divided difference operator that satisfies \(\|[x,y;F] - [v,w;F] \|\leq \omega(\|x-v \|, \|y-w \|)\) with a continuous, nondecreasing function \(\omega\) in its two arguments. The condition does not require \(F\) to be differentiable.