Petviashvilli's Method for the Dirichlet Problem

We examine the Petviashvilli method for solving the equation $\phi - \Delta \phi = |\phi|^{p-1} \phi$ on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove a local convergence result, using spectral analysis, akin to the result for the problem on $\mathbb{R}$ by Pelinovsky & Stepanyants, 2004. We also prove a global convergence result by generating a suite of nonlinear inequalities for the iteration sequence, and we show that the sequence has a natural energy that decreases along the sequence.Comment: 24 pages, 7 figures, shortened for publication with some corrections. See v1 for more detailed proofs of the local convergenc