An Ulm-Type Inverse-Free Iterative Scheme for Fredholm Integral Equations of Second Kind

Abstract

In this paper, we present an iterative method based on the well-known Ulm’s method to numerically solve Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. We support our strategy in the symmetry between two well-known problems in Numerical Analysis: the solution of linear integral equations and the approximation of inverse operators. In this way, we obtain a two-folded algorithm that allows us to approximate, with quadratic order of convergence, the solution of the integral equation as well as the inverses at the solution of the derivative of the operator related to the problem. We have studied the semilocal convergence of the method and we have obtained the expression of the method in a particular case, given by some adequate initial choices. The theoretical results are illustrated with two applications to integral equations, given by symmetric non-separable kernels.

Keywords

• Fredholm integral equation
• iterative methods
• Ulm’s method
• semilocal convergence