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Newton's method's basins of attraction revisited

Numerical Analysis 2017-08-10 v1 Complex Variables

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit the chaotic number of iterations needed by Newton's method to converge to a root. Here, we consider a simple modified Newton method depending on a parameter. It is demonstrated using polynomiography that even in the simple algorithm the presence and the position of the convergent regions, i.e. regions where the method converges nicely to a root, can be complicatedly a function of the parameter.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02732,
  title  = {Newton's method's basins of attraction revisited},
  author = {H. Susanto and N. Karjanto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02732},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures