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The convergence of shooting methods

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Shooting methods for nonlinear boundary value problems are examined. It is shown that the methods converge whenever the problem is well posed in the sense that the solution to be computed is isolated.

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Weiss, R. The convergence of shooting methods. BIT 13, 470–475 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01933411

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