A semismooth equation approach to the solution of nonlinear complementarity problems

Mathematical Programming, Series B

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 407-439

  De Luca, Tecla ^a   Facchinei, Francisco ^a   Kanzow, Christian ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global convergence; Nonlinear complementarity problem; Quadratic convergence; Semismoothness; Smooth merit function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043189808     PISSN: 00255610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02592192     Document Type: Article

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