5. Conclusions
This paper presents a rational cubic clipping method (denoted as Mr) for finding the roots of a polynomial f (t) within an interval, which can achieve a convergence rate of 7 for a single root by using rational cubic polynomials. Different from previous clipping methods in Bartonˇ and Jüttler (2007), Liu et al. (2009) for computing two bounding polynomials in O(n2) time, Mr directly constructs two rational cubic polynomials, which can be used to bound f (t) in many cases and leads to a computational complexity of O(n). Numerical examples also show that Mr can achieve a much higher convergence rate, much better approximation effect and much higher computation efficiency than previous clipping methods in Bartonˇ and Jüttler (2007), Liu et al. (2009). As for future work, it should also be feasible to achieve a higher computation efficiency by using two bounding B-spline curves, or to achieve a higher convergence rate by combining with reparameterization techniques. Another possible future work is to extend Mr from the curve case to surface cases, which can be used for the root-finding problem of an equation system consisting of two bivariate polynomials.