Title
Nonlinear complementarity as unconstrained and constrained minimization
Abstract
The nonlinear complementarity problem is cast as an unconstrained minimization problem that is obtained from an augmented Lagrangian formulation. The dimensionality of the unconstrained problem is the same as that of the original problem, and the penalty parameter need only be greater than one. Another feature of the unconstrained problem is that it has global minima of zero at precisely all the solution points of the complementarity problem without any monotonicity assumption. If the mapping of the complementarity problem is differentiable, then so is the objective of the unconstrained problem, and its gradient vanishes at all solution points of the complementarity problem. Under assumptions of nondegeneracy and linear independence of gradients of active constraints at a complementarity problem solution, the corresponding global unconstrained minimum point is locally unique. A Wolfe dual to a standard constrained optimization problem associated with the nonlinear complementarity problem is also formulated under a monotonicity and differentiability assumption. Most of the standard duality results are established even though the underlying constrained optimization problem may be nonconvex. Preliminary numer- ical tests on two small nonmonotone problems from the published literature converged to degenerate or nonde- generate solutions from all attempted starting points in 7 to 28 steps of a BFGS quasi-Newton method for unconstrained optimization.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1007/BF01585171
Math. Program.
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonlinear complementarity,quasi newton method,complementarity problem,linear independence,augmented lagrangian
Mathematical optimization,Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization,Complementarity theory,Augmented Lagrangian method,Duality (optimization),Lagrangian relaxation,Mixed complementarity problem,Optimization problem,Mathematics,Nonlinear complementarity problem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
2
1436-4646
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
76
12.85
12
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
O. L. Mangasarian14803820.91
M. V. Solodov260072.47