Abstract
In this paper, we present a local convergence analysis of some iterative methods to approximate a locally unique solution of nonlinear equations in a Banach space setting. In the earlier study [Babajee et al. (2015) "On some improved harmonic mean Newton-like methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations," Algorithms 8(4), 895-909], demonstrate convergence of their methods under hypotheses on the fourth-order derivative or even higher. However, only first-order derivative of the function appears in their proposed scheme. In this study, we have shown that the local convergence of these methods depends on hypotheses only on the first-order derivative and the Lipschitz condition. In this way, we not only expand the applicability of these methods but also proposed the theoretical radius of convergence of these methods. Finally, a variety of concrete numerical examples demonstrate that our results even apply to solve those nonlinear equations where earlier studies cannot apply.