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We investigate the NP-hard absolute value equation (AVE) Ax−|x|=b, where A is an arbitrary n×n real matrix. In this paper, we propose a smoothing Newton method for the AVE. When the singular values of A exceed 1, we show that this proposed method is globally convergent and the convergence rate is quadratic. Preliminary numerical results show that this method is promising.
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Caccetta, L., Qu, B. & Zhou, G. A globally and quadratically convergent method for absolute value equations. Comput Optim Appl 48, 45–58 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10589-009-9242-9
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