Global and superlinear convergence of the smoothing newton method and its application to general box constrained variational inequalities

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 67, Issue 222, 1998, Pages 519-540

  Chen, X ^a   Qi, L ^a   Sun, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Convergence; Rionsmooth equations; Smoothing approximation; Smoothing Newton method; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032380644     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-98-00932-6     Document Type: Article

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