Abstract: A novel inexact smoothing method is presented for solving the second-order cone complementarity problems (SOCCP). Our method reformulates the SOCCP as an equivalent nonlinear system of equations by in- troducing a regularized Chen-Harker-Kanzow-Smale smoothing function. At each iteration, Newton’s method is adopted to solve the system of equations approximately, which saves computation work compared to the cal- culations of exact search directions. Under rather weak assumptions, the algorithm is proved to possess global convergence and local quadratic convergence.
DOI: *As the DOI is a unique identifier, it is already available in the pdf version. **The DOI link will be activated in the first midst of January 2026.