Smoothing penalty approach for solving second-order cone complementarity problems

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a smoothing penalty approach for solving the second-order cone complementarity problem (SOCCP). The SOCCP is approximated by a smooth nonlinear equation with penalization parameter. We show that any solution sequence of the approximating equations converges to the solution of the SOCCP under the assumption that the associated function of the SOCCP satisfies a uniform Cartesian-type property. We present a corresponding algorithm for solving the SOCCP based on this smoothing penalty approach, and we demonstrate the efficiency of our method for solving linear, nonlinear and tensor complementarity problems in the second-order cone setting.