Nondegenerate Solutions and Related Concepts in Affine Variational Inequalities

  • Authors:
  • M. C. Ferris;J. S. Pang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The notion of a strictly complementary solution for complementarity problems is extended to that of a nondegenerate solution of variational inequalities. Several equivalent formulations of nondegeneracy are given. In the affine case, an existence theorem for a nondegenerate solution is given in terms of several related concepts which are shown to be equivalent in this context. These include a weak sharp minimum, the minimum principle sufficiency, and error bounds. The gap function associated with the variational inequality plays a central role in this existence theorem.