Relationships between different types of initial conditions for simultaneous root finding methods

Abstract

The construction of initial conditions of an iterative method is one of the most important problems in solving nonlinear equations. In this paper, we obtain relationships between different types of initial conditions that guarantee the convergence of iterative methods for simultaneous finding all zeros of a polynomial. In particular, we show that any local convergence theorem for a simultaneous method can be converted into a convergence theorem with computationally verifiable initial conditions which is of practical importance. Thus, we propose a new approach for obtaining semilocal convergence results for simultaneous methods via local convergence results.