Although homotopy-based methods, namely homotopy analysis method and homotopy perturbation method, have largely been used to solve functional equations, there are still serious questions on the convergence issue of these methods. Some authors have tried to prove convergence of these methods, but the researchers in this article indicate that some of those discussions are faulty. Here, after crit...

The results of a previous paper on the equivariant homotopy theory of crossed complexes are generalised from the case of a discrete group to general topological groups. The principal new ingredient necessary for this is an analysis of homotopy coherence theory for crossed complexes, using detailed results on the appropriate Eilenberg–Zilber theory, and of its relation to simplicial homotopy coh...

Solving Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation with a Quadratic Nonlinear term using Homotopy Analysis Method H. Jafari , M. Saeidy, M. Arab Firoozjaee Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Mazandaran, P. O. Box 47416-1467, Babolsar, Iran. Abstract In this paper, nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with quadratic term is solved by means of an analytic technique, namely the Homotopy...

This paper is aimed to demonstrate the modified form of Homotopy Analysis Method for solving both linear and nonlinear integro differential equations. The modified form of Homotopy Analysis method is found to be fast, reliable and accurate and contains an auxiliary parameter that provides a powerful tool to analyses strongly linear and nonlinear (without linearization) problems directly. Numeri...

In this paper, we present homotopy perturbation method (HPM) for solving the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and convergence study of homotopy perturbation method for nonlinear partial differential equation. We compared our solution with the exact solution and homotopy analysis method (HAM). The results show that the HPM is an appropriate method for solving nonlinear equation.

A new definition of the homotopy analysis method is given by means of the decomposition method in this paper. The convergence of the homotopy decomposition method is proved under some reasonable hypotheses, which provide the theoretical basis of the homotopy decomposition method for solving nonlinear problems. AMS subject classification: 34A34.

An analytic technique, the homotopy analysis method (HAM), is applied to obtain the approximate analytical solutions of fourth-order integro-differential equations. The homotopy analysis method (HAM) is one of the most effective method to obtain the exact and approximate solution and provides us with a new way to obtain series solutions of such problems. HAM contains the auxiliary parameter ħ, ...

The generalized Taylor expansion including a secret auxiliary parameter h which can control and adjust the convergence region of the series is the foundation of the homotopy analysis method proposed by Liao. The secret of h can’t be understood in the frame of the homotopy analysis method. This is a serious shortcoming of Liao’s method. We solve the problem. Through a detailed study of a simple ...