ON USING THE ELASTIC MODE IN NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACHES TO MATHEMATICALPROGRAMS WITH COMPLEMENTARITY CONSTRAINTS

We investigate the possibility of solving mathematical programs with complementarity constraints (MPCCs) using algorithms and procedures of smooth nonlinear programming. Although MPCCs do not satisfy a constraint qualification, we establish sucient conditions for their Lagrange multiplier set to be nonempty. MPCCs that have nonempty Lagrange multiplier sets and that satisfy the quadratic growth condition can … Read more