Partially symmetrical derivative-free Liu–Storey projection method for convex constrained equations

Applying Powell symmetrical technique to the Liu–Storey conjugate gradient method, a partially symmetrical Liu–Storey conjugate gradient method is proposed and extended to solve nonlinear monotone equations with convex constraints, which satisfies the sufficient descent condition without any line search. By using some line searches, the global convergence is proved merely by assuming that the equations are Lipschitz continuous. Moreover, we prove the R-linear convergence rate of the proposed method with an additional assumption. Finally, compared with one existing method, the performance of the proposed method is showed by some numerical experiments on the given test problems.