Some iterative methods for the solution of a symmetric indefinite KKT system

  • Authors:
  • Silvia Bonettini;Valeria Ruggiero

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy 41100;Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy 44100

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of a Karush---Kuhn---Tucker system. Such symmetric indefinite system arises when we solve a nonlinear programming problem by an Interior-Point (IP) approach. In this framework, we discuss the effectiveness of two inner iterative solvers: the method of multipliers and the preconditioned conjugate gradient method. We discuss the implementation details of these algorithms in an IP scheme and we report the results of a numerical comparison on a set of large scale test-problems arising from the discretization of elliptic control problems.