On the convergence of Wang-Zheng's method

Abstract

The choice of initial conditions ensuring safe convergence of the implemented iterative method is one of the most important problems in solving polynomial equations. These conditions should depend only on the coefficients of a given polynomial P and initial approximations to the zeros of P. In this paper we state initial conditions with the described properties for the Wang-Zheng method for the simultaneous approximation of all zeros of P. The safe convergence and the fourth-order convergence of this method are proved. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.