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A semi-smooth Newton method for a special piecewise linear system with application to positively constrained convex quadratic programming

Optimization and Control 2015-11-13 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper a special piecewise linear system is studied. It is shown that, under a mild assumption, the semi-smooth Newton method applied to this system is well defined and the method generates a sequence that converges linearly to a solution. Besides, we also show that the generated sequence is bounded, for any starting point, and a formula for any accumulation point of this sequence is presented. As an application, we study the convex quadratic programming problem under positive constraints. The numerical results suggest that the semi-smooth Newton method achieves accurate solutions to large scale problems in few iterations.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01582,
  title  = {A semi-smooth Newton method for a special piecewise linear system with application to positively constrained convex quadratic programming},
  author = {J. G. Barrios and J. Y. Bello Cruz and O. P. Ferreira and S. Z. Németh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01582},
  year   = {2015}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.02753

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