Stiffly Stable Linear Multistep Methods of Extended Order

Certain linear k-step methods of order k (the Gear formulas) have proven very useful in the integration of stiff equations, but are of sixth order or less. In this paper, we investigate the stiff stability property of k-step methods of order $m < k$, and derive particular methods of this kind which can be viewed as extensions of the Gear formulas, and include formulas of order greater than six.