Interior Point Trajectories and a Homogeneous Model for Nonlinear Complementarity Problems over Symmetric Cones

We study the continuous trajectories for solving monotone nonlinear mixed complementarity problems over symmetric cones. While the analysis in [5] depends on the optimization theory of convex log-barrier functions, our approach is based on the paper of Monteiro and Pang [17], where a vast set of conclusions concerning continuous trajectories is shown for monotone complementarity problems over the cone of symmetric positive semidefinite matrices. As an application of the results, we propose a homogeneous model for standard monotone nonlinear complementarity problems over symmetric cones and discuss its theoretical aspects.