Legendre superconvergent degenerate kernel and Nyström methods for nonlinear integral equations (Q6188083)

In this paper two different numerical schemes have been studied for numerical discretization of nonlinear integral equations: Legendre superconvergent degenerate (LSDM) and Nyström (NM) methods. The outcomes of the present work are assessed by means of two very well known types of nonlinear integral equations: Hammerstein and Urysohn equations for each of the proposed methods respectively. For both methods, it is known that the order of convergence is \(O(n^{-2r+1/2})\) in \(\|\cdot\|_{\infty}\) where \(r\) stands for the regularity of the kernel and \(n\) for the degree of interpolating polynomials. The main contribution of the paper is the improvement of such order up to \(O(n^{-2r})\) by means of the Sloan iterations. This is the so-called superconvergence. The authors state the finite-rank operator for LSDM in (2.7) and the Nyström operator for NM in (2.10). They show the main results of the paper in Theorems 3.3 and 3.6 for LSDM and NM respectively. Apart from the convergence order improvement, the authors highlight the better performance of their implementation since the approach proposed leads to solving systems of nonlinear equations much smaller than the ones involved in classical piecewise polynomial approaches. Some typos: In the 1st line of pg. 664, \(u\) should be \(x\); In Lemma 2, \textit{independent on...} should be instead of \textit{independent of...}; In pg. 678, the \(t_i\) are wrongly ranged, they should be from \(1\) to \(n/2\); in pg. 674, both conditions in (iii) seem to be redundant.