The Mizuno-Todd-Ye predictor-corrector algorithm for linear programming is extended for solving monotone linear complementarity problems from infeasible starting points. The proposed algorithm requires two matrix factorizations and at most three backsolves per iteration. Its computational complexity depends on the quality of the starting point. If the starting points are large enough, then the ...

In this paper, we propose a Big-? smoothing method for solving the P 0 matrix linear complementarity problem. We study the trajectory deened by the augmented smoothing equations and global convergence of the method under an assumption that the original P 0 matrix linear complementarity problem has a solution. The method has been tested on the P 0 matrix linear complementarity problem with unbou...

This report gives an overview of the linear complementarity problem, as a special case of mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints. The interior point method and two versions of Lemke’s method are reviewed, as methods for solving the linear complementarity problem. The report concludes with a description of the Stackelberg game and the bimatrix game as possible applications of math...

The Josephy-Newton method for solving a nonlinear complementarity problem consists of solving, possibly inexactly, a sequence of linear complementarity problems. Under appropriate regularity assumptions, this method is known to be locally (superlinearly) convergent. To enlarge the domain of convergence of the Newton method, some globalization strategy based on a chosen merit function is typical...

In this paper we consider the extended semide nite linear complementarity problem (XSDLCP). We propose merit functions that can constitute minimization problems equivalent to XSDLCP and show some properties of these functions. We also consider the semide nite nonlinear complementarity problem (SDNCP) and give new su cient conditions that guarantee the existence of a solution to SDNCP.

We study several properties of a homotopy solution path associated with continuous nonlinear quasi-monotone complementarity problems. We use Poincare-Bohn’s homotopy invariance theorem of degree to derive an alternative theorem. Based on this result, a sufficient condition is established to assure the existence and boundedness of this homotopy solution path. Our results provide a theoretical ba...

The modern era of interior-point methods dates to 1984, when Karmarkar proposed his algorithm for linear programming. In the years since then, algorithms and software for linear programming have become quite sophisticated, while extensions to more general classes of problems, such as convex quadratic programming, semide nite programming, and nonconvex and nonlinear problems, have reached varyin...

We consider a polyhedron intersected by a two-term disjunction, and we characterize the polyhedron resulting from taking its closed convex hull. This generalizes an earlier result of Conforti, Wolsey and Zambelli on split disjunctions. We also recover as a special case the valid inequalities derived by Judice, Sherali, Ribeiro and Faustino for linear complementarity problems.