A weak condition for secant method to solve systems of nonlinear equations

In this paper, a new weak condition for the convergence of secant method to solve the systems of nonlinear equations is proposed. A convergence ball with the center x0 is replaced by that with xl, the first approximation generated by the secant method with the initial data x-1 and x0. Under the bounded conditions of the divided difference, a convergence theorem is obtained and two examples to illustrate the weakness of convergence conditions are provided. Moreover, the secant method is applied to a system of nonlinear equations to demonstrate the viability and effectiveness of the results in the paper.

Shamanskii-Like Levenberg-Marquardt Method with a New Line Search for Systems of Nonlinear Equations

To save the calculations of Jacobian,a multi-step Levenberg-Marquardt method named Shamanskii-like LM method for systems of nonlinear equations was proposed by Fa.Its convergence properties have been proved by using a trust region technique under the local error bound condition.However,the authors wonder whether the similar convergence properties are still true with standard line searches since the direction may not be a descent direction.For this purpose,the authors present a new nonmonotone m-th order Armijo type line search to guarantee the global convergence.Under the same condition as trust region case,the convergence rate also has been shown to be m+1 by using this line search technique.Numerical experiments show the new algorithm can save much running time for the large scale problems,so it is efficient and promising.

ON NEWTON-HSS METHODS FOR SYSTEMS OF NONLINEAR EQUATIONS WITH POSITIVE-DEFINITE JACOBIAN MATRICES

The Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting （HSS） method is an unconditionally convergent iteration method for solving large sparse non-Hermitian positive definite system of linear equations. By making use of the HSS iteration as the inner solver for the Newton method, we establish a class of Newton-HSS methods for solving large sparse systems of nonlinear equations with positive definite Jacobian matrices at the solution points. For this class of inexact Newton methods, two types of local convergence theorems are proved under proper conditions, and numerical results are given to examine their feasibility and effectiveness. In addition, the advantages of the Newton-HSS methods over the Newton-USOR, the Newton-GMRES and the Newton-GCG methods are shown through solving systems of nonlinear equations arising from the finite difference discretization of a two-dimensional convection-diffusion equation perturbed by a nonlinear term. The numerical implemen- tations also show that as preconditioners for the Newton-GMRES and the Newton-GCG methods the HSS iteration outperforms the USOR iteration in both computing time and iteration step.

STABILITY OF NONLINEAR COMPARISON EQUATIONS FOR DISCRETE LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS

On the stability analysis of large-scale systems by Lyapunov functions, it is necessary to determine the stability of vector comparison equations. For discrete systems, only the stability of linear autonomous comparison equations was studied in the past. In this paper, various criteria of stability for discrete nonlinear autonomous comparison equations are completely established. Among them, a criterion for asymptotic stability is not only sufficient, but also necessary, from which a criterion on the function class C, is derived. Both of them can be used to determine the unexponential stability, even in the large, for discrete nonlinear (autonomous or nonautonomous) systems. All the criteria are of simple algebraic forms and can be readily used.

ON SEMILOCAL CONVERGENCE OF INEXACT NEWTON METHODS

Inexact Newton methods are constructed by combining Newton＇s method with another iterative method that is used to solve the Newton equations inexactly. In this paper, we establish two semilocal convergence theorems for the inexact Newton methods. When these two theorems are specified to Newton＇s method, we obtain a different Newton-Kantorovich theorem about Newton＇s method. When the iterative method for solving the Newton equations is specified to be the splitting method, we get two estimates about the iteration steps for the special inexact Newton methods.