# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2013, 9(2): 305-322. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2013.9.305

## Globally convergent algorithm for solving stationary points for mathematical programs with complementarity constraints via nonsmooth reformulations

 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China 2 School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

Received  January 2012 Revised  May 2012 Published  February 2013

The purpose of the paper is to develop globally convergent algorithms for solving the popular stationarity systems for mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (MPCC) directly. Since the popular stationarity systems for MPCC contain some unknown index sets, we first present some nonsmooth reformulations for the stationarity systems by removing the unknown index sets and then we propose a Levenberg-Marquardt type method to solve them. Under some regularity conditions, we show that the proposed method is globally and superlinearly convergent. We further report some preliminary numerical results.
Citation: Lei Guo, Gui-Hua Lin. Globally convergent algorithm for solving stationary points for mathematical programs with complementarity constraints via nonsmooth reformulations. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2013, 9 (2) : 305-322. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2013.9.305
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