Choosing the Best Members of the Optimal Eighth-Order Petković’s Family by Its Fractal Behavior

Abstract

In this paper, by applying Petković’s iterative method to the Möbius conjugate mapping of a quadratic polynomial function, we attain an optimal eighth-order rational operator with a single parameter r and research the stability of this method by using complex dynamics tools on the basis of fractal theory. Through analyzing the stability of the fixed point and drawing the parameter space related to the critical point, the parameter family which can make the behavior of the corresponding iterative method stable or unstable is obtained. Lastly, the consequence is verified by showing their corresponding dynamical planes.

Keywords

• nonlinear equations
• Julia and Fatou sets
• Mandelbrot set
• dynamics analysis
• parameter space
• dynamical plane