On the global convergence of a fast Halley’s family to solve nonlinear equations

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to suggest an approach for increasing the convergence speed of Halley’s method to solve a non-linear equation. This approach is based on the second order Taylor polynomial and on Halley’s formula. By applying it a certain number of times, we obtain a new family of methods. The originality of this family is manifested in the fact that all its sequences are generated from one exceptional formula that depends on a natural integer parameter p . In addition, under certain conditions, the convergence speed of its sequences increases with p . The convergence analysis shows that the order of convergence of all proposed methods is three. A study on their global convergence is carried out. To illustrate the performance of this family, several numerical comparisons are made with other third and higher order methods.