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A variational method for the construction of convergent iterative sequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Zalman Rubinstein
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, U.S.A. Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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Abstract

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Convergent iterative sequences are constructed for the polynomials fm = z + zm, m ≧ 2, with initial point the lemniscate {z: |fm (z)| ≦1}. In the particular case m = 2 convergent iterative sequences are constructed also for f-1m, (z) with an arbitrary initial point. The method is based on a certain variational principle which allows reducing the problem to the well known situation of an analytic function mapping a simply connected domain into a proper subset of itself and possessing a fixed point in the domain.

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Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1986

References

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