SEMILOCAL CONVERGENCE OF A STIRLING-LIKE METHOD IN BANACH SPACES
The aim of this paper is to establish the semilocal convergence of a third order Stirling–like method employed for solving nonlinear equations in Banach spaces by using the first Fréchet derivative, which satisfies the Lipschitz continuity condition. This makes it possible to avoid the evaluation of higher order Fréchet derivatives which are computationally difficult at times or may not even exist. The recurrence relations are used for convergence analysis. A convergence theorem is given for deriving error bounds and the domains of existence and uniqueness of solutions. The R order of the method is also established to be equal to 3. Finally, two numerical examples are worked out, and the results obtained are compared with the existing results. It is observed that our convergence analysis is more effective.