Projection and multi projection methods for nonlinear integral equations on the half-line

Abstract

In this article, Galerkin and collocation methods and their iterated versions are discussed to solve the nonlinear Hammerstein type integral equation on the half-line for both convolution and non-convolution kernels using the space of piecewise polynomial subspace. We prove that the approximate and iterated approximate solution in Galerkin and collocation methods converges with the order O ( n − r ) and O ( n − 2 r ) respectively in the infinity norm, where n − 1 is the maximum norm of the partition and r denotes the order of the piecewise polynomial employed in the approximation. We improve these results further by considering multi-projection methods. In fact we show that iterated approximate solution in multi-Galerkin, multi-collocation converges with the order O ( n − 4 r ) . Numerical results are presented to confirm the theoretical results.