English

Root-finding: from Newton to Halley and beyond

Optimization and Control 2023-12-20 v1 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis Computational Finance

Abstract

We give a new improvement over Newton's method for root-finding, when the function in question is doubly differentiable. It generally exhibits faster and more reliable convergence. It can be also be thought of as a correction to Halley's method, as this can exhibit undesirable behaviour.

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@article{arxiv.2312.12305,
  title  = {Root-finding: from Newton to Halley and beyond},
  author = {Richard J. Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.12305},
  year   = {2023}
}
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