The nonlinear complementarity or NCP functions were introduced by Mangasarian and these functions are proved to be useful in constrained optimization and elsewhere. Interestingly enough there are only two general methods to derive such functions, while the known or used NCP functions are either...

In this paper, we study several NCP-functions for the nonlinear complementarity problem (NCP) which are indeed based on the generalized Fischer–Burmeister function, ϕp(a, b) = ||(a, b)||p - (a + b). It is well known that the NCP can be reformulated as an equivalent unconstrained minimization...