A modified projection and contraction method for a class of linear complementarity problems

The author had proposed an iterative projection and contraction (PC) method for a class of linear complementarity problems. The method was shown to be globally convergent, but no statement could be made about the rate of convergence. In this paper, the author develops a modified globally linearly convergent PC method for linear complementarity problems. Both the method and the convergence proofs are very simple. The method can also be used to solve some linear variational inequalities. Several computational experiments are presented to indicate that the method is surprising good for solving some known difficult problems.