| Article ID: | iaor1999954 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 78 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 347 |
| End Page Number: | 355 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Programming |
| Authors: | Peng Ji-Ming |
| Keywords: | complementarity |
In this paper we propose a class of merit functions for variational inequality problems (VI). Through these merit functions, the variational inequality problem is cast as unconstrained minimization problem. We estimate the growth rate of these merit functions and give conditions under which the stationary points of these functions are the solutions of VI.