New Perturbation Iteration Solutions for Fredholm and Volterra Integral Equations

As one of themost important subjects of mathematics, differential and integral equations are widely used to model a variety of physical problems. Perturbation methods have been used in search of approximate analytical solutions for over a century [1–3]. Algebraic equations, integral-differential equations, and difference equations could be solved by these techniques approximately. However, a major difficulty in the implementation of perturbation methods is the requirement of a small parameter or inserting a small artificial parameter in the equation. Solutions obtained by these methods are therefore restricted by a validity range of physical parameters. To eliminate the small parameter assumption in regular perturbation analysis, iteration techniques are incorporated with perturbations. Many attempts in this issue appear in the literature recently [4–13]. Recently, a new perturbation-iteration algorithm has been developed by Pakdemirli and his coworkers [14–16]. A preliminary study of developing root finding algorithms systematically [17–19] finally led to generalization of the method to differential equations also [14–16]. An iterative scheme is constituted over the perturbation expansion in the new technique. The method has been successfully implemented to first-order equations [15] and Bratu-type second-order equations [14]. In this paper, this new technique is applied to integral equations for the first time. Fredholm and Volterra integral equations