Differentiable difference approximations for nonlinear initial-value problems.I

This paper deals with the approximation of nonlinear initial-value problems by difference methiods. in the Present part I The basic definitions and concepts are presented and equivalence theorems for stability and continuous convergenc are proved. Here, The differentiability condition (d) and the boundedness condition (Bp) are of fundamental siginificance. the latter is one of the equivalent characterizations of stability. The equivalence theorems for stability and continuous convergence include characterizations by means of locally uniform two-sided Lipschitz conditions and tow-sided discertization error estimates. At the end of part I a generalized of the concept of stable convergence of Dahlquist 2] and Torng 16] is proved to series of equivalent conditions convergence. in part II the above results will yields a series of equivalent conditions for the concepts of weak stability and conditions convergence of certain order. Moreover, further convergence concepts for semi-homogeneous methods will be studied, and hyperbolic and parawbolic example will be treated