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Newton method for systems of nonlinear equations with singular Jacobian using diagonal updating

M. Y. Waziri, W. J. Leong, M. A. Hassan, M. Monsi

Abstract


It is well known that when the Jacobian of nonlinear systems is nonsingular in the neighborhood of the solution, the convergence of Newton method to a solution x* of F(x) = 0 is guaranteed and the rate is quadratic. Violating this condition, i.e. the Jacobian to be singular the convergence may be unsatisfactory and may even lost. In this paper we present a modification of Newton method for systems of nonlinear equations with singular Jacobian which is very much faster and significantly cheaper than both Newton and Fixed Newton methods. This is made possible by approximating the Jacobian into a nonsingular diagonal matrix. Numerical experiments are carried out which shows that, the proposed method is very encouraging.

Keywords


Newton method, Diagonal updating, Jacobian approximation, Singular Jacobian.

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