On Newton-type methods with cubic convergence

Recently, there has been some progress on Newton-type methods with cubic convergence that do not require the computation of second derivatives. Weerakoon and Fernando (Appl. Math. Lett. 13 (2000) 87) derived the Newton method and a cubically convergent variant by rectangular and trapezoidal approximations to Newtonʹs theorem, while Frontini and Sormani (J. Comput. Appl. Math. 156 (2003) 345; 140 (2003) 419 derived further cubically convergent variants by using different approximations to Newtonʹs theorem. Homeier (J. Comput. Appl. Math. 157 (2003) 227; 169 (2004) 161) independently derived one of the latter variants and extended it to the multivariate case. Here, we show that one can modify the Werrakoon–Fernando approach by using Newtonʹs theorem for the inverse function and derive a new class of cubically convergent Newton-type methods.