(1) Department of Mathematical Sciences and School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA;(2) Department of SEOR and Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Abstract:
We introduce and analyze an exterior-point method (EPM) for constrained optimization problems with both inequality constraints and equations. We show that under the standard second-order optimality conditions the EPM converges to the primal–dual solution with 1.5-Q-superlinear rate. Dedicated to Professor Gil Strang on the occasion on his 70th birthday.