On the Gauss-Newton method for solving equations

We use a combination of the center-Lipschitz condition with the Lipschitz condition condition on the Frechet-derivative of the operator involved to provide a semilocal convergence analysis of the Gauss-Newton method to a solution of an equation. Using more precise estimates on the distances involved, under weaker hypotheses, and under the same computational cost, we provide an analysis of the Gauss- Newton method with the following advantages over the corresponding results in [8]: larger convergence domain; finer error estimates on the distances involved, and an at least as precise information on the location ofthe solution