A new approach to continuation methods for complementarity problems with uniform P-functions

  • Authors:
  • Christian Kanzow

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

We design a new continuation method for the solution of nonlinear complementarity problems with uniform P-functions. Similar to interior-point methods, we try to follow the central path inexactly. In contrast to interior-point methods, however, our iterates are allowed to stay outside of the positive orthant. The method is shown to be globally and superlinearly (quadratically) convergent.