Semilocal convergence of secant-like methods for differentiable and nondifferentiable operator equations (Q691812)

The authors present a new uniparametric family of secant-like iterative methods. The problem under consideration is a nonlinear equation \(F(x)=0\) in Banach spaces. A method of \textit{M. A. Hernández} and \textit{M. F. Rubio} which depends on a parameter \(p\) was published in [Appl. Math. Lett. 15, No. 4, 395--399 (2002; Zbl 1016.65033)]. If \(p=0\) this method reduces to the secant method and if \(p=1\) to the Newton's method. Necessary is here the differentiability of \(F\). The present paper combines the secant method with the method of Kurchatov. Kurchatov's method has \(R\)-order of convergence two, derivatives are not used in the algorithm. The local order of convergence of the new method is studied. Then, the efficiency of this method is analyzed. The semilocal convergence is checked for differentiable and for nondifferentiable operators. The situations are illustrated with two applications to conservative problems.