The secant map applied to a real polynomial with multiple roots (Q2211124)

The article is a natural continuation of the issue ``Global dynamics of the real secant method'' [the authors, Nonlinearity 32, No. 11, 4557--4578 (2019; Zbl 1428.37099)]. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the dynamical system generated by the so-called secant map, or secant method when considering it as a root finding algorithm, applied to the real monic polynomial \(p(x)\) of degree \(n\ge 2\), under the presence of real multiple roots. More precisely, the authors investigate the plane dynamical system given by the secant map applied to a polynomial \(p\) having at least one multiple root of multiplicity \(d > 1\) and prove that the local dynamics around the fixed points related to the roots of \(p\) depends on the parity of \(d\). Interesting numerical examples are also given. Theorem A can be also useful for studying bifurcation phenomena coming from the collision of several roots.