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A stability analysis for the extended Kantorovich method applied to the torsion problem

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It is shown that the extended Kantorovich method introduced by Kerr [4] cannot be unconditionally stable. On the basis of this stability result, it is concluded that Kerr's claims for the extended Kantorovich method, though justified, are optimistic.

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Anderssen, R.S. A stability analysis for the extended Kantorovich method applied to the torsion problem. Numer. Math. 17, 239–246 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01436380

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