A construction of attracting periodic orbits for some classical third-order iterative methods (Q818152)

A family of root-finding iterative methods for finding roots of nonlinear equations is presented. The authors discuss a procedure for constructing polynomials so that superattracting periodic orbits of any prescribed period occur when these methods are applied. This family includes Chebyshev's method, Halley's method, the super-Halley method, an the c-method as particular cases. A detailed example is given and illustrated by a figure which shows the basins of attraction of the periodic orbit.