<p style='text-indent:20px;'>The weighted complementarity problem (wCP) can be applied to a large variety of equilibrium problems in science, economics and engineering. Since formulating an as wCP may lead highly efficient algorithms for its numerical solution, is nontrivial generalization the problem. In this paper we consider special linear (wLCP), which more general optimization Fisher...

We examine the formation of giant elliptical galaxies using their globular cluster (GC) systems as probes of their evolutionary history. The bimodal distributions of GC metallicities in such galaxies are often cited as evidence for the formation of giant elliptical galaxies through mergers involving gas-rich spirals, with the metal-rich GCs forming during the merger process. We explore an alter...

We study the stability of the giant gravitons in the string theory background with NSNS B field. We consider the perturbation of giant gravitons formed by a probe D(8− p) brane in the background generated by D(p− 2)D(p) branes for 2 ≤ p ≤ 5. We use the quadratic approximation to the brane action to find the equations of motion. The vibration modes for ρ , φ and r are coupled, while those of xk’...

Paying off the mortgage, once a widespread rite of passage for homeowners approaching retirement, has become less common in recent years. Concerns are mounting that the increased prevalence of housing debt among older homeowners could compromise financial security in retirement by expanding housing affordability problems, crimping essential nonhousing spending, increasing vulnerability to home ...

We consider the asymptotic behavior of the Newton/log barrier method for inequality constrained optimization. We show that, when the objective function is linear, an eeective step can be taken along the Newton direction after each reduction in the barrier parameter, leading to eecient performance during the nal stages of the algorithm. This behavior contrasts with the case of a nonlinear object...

Superlinear convergence of the Newton method for nonsmooth equations requires a “semismoothness” assumption. In this work we prove that locally Lipschitz functions definable in an o-minimal structure (in particular semialgebraic or globally subanalytic functions) are semismooth. Semialgebraic, or more generally, globally subanalytic mappings present the special interest of being γ -order semism...

In this study we use disturbed Newton-like methods to approximate a locally unique solution of a nonlinear equation containing a nondiierentiable term. We choose the linear operators to be inverted at every step of the computation of the Newton iterates to be associated not only with the diierentiable part of the equation as it has happened so far but also with the nondiierentiable part. This w...

We propose a line-of-sight (LOS)/non-line-of-sight (NLOS) mixture source localization algorithms that utilize the weighted block Newton (WBN) and variable step size WBN (VSSWBN) method, in which the weighting matrix is determined in the form of the inverse of the squared error or as an exponential function with a negative exponent. The proposed WBN and VSSWBN algorithms converge in two iteratio...