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In this paper we consider the weighted nonlinear complementarity problem (denoted by wNCP) which contains a wide class of optimization problems. We introduce a family of new weighted complementarity functions and show that it is continuously differentiable everywhere and has several favorable properties. Based on this function, we reformulate the wNCP as a smooth nonlinear equation and propose a nonmonotone Levenberg–Marquardt type method to solve it. We show that the proposed method is well-defined and it is globally convergent without any additional condition. Moreover, we prove that the whole iteration sequence converges to a solution of the wNCP locally superlinearly or quadratically under the nonsingularity condition. In addition, we establish the local quadratic convergence of the proposed method under the local error bound condition. Some numerical results are also reported.
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This paper was partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (11771255), Young Innovation Teams of Shandong Province (2019KJI013), Program of Science and Technology Activities for Overseas Students in Henan Province in 2020 and Nanhu Scholars Program for Young Scholars of Xinyang Normal University. The authors are grateful to Professor Hongchao Zhang for his suggestion on testing wLCP with a noise and thank for the referees for their careful reading and helpful suggestions.
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Tang, J., Zhou, J. Quadratic convergence analysis of a nonmonotone Levenberg–Marquardt type method for the weighted nonlinear complementarity problem. Comput Optim Appl 80, 213–244 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-021-00300-8
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