The geometry of the Newton method on non-compact Lie groups (Q1864792)

The authors present an original unifying analysis of Newton like methods on general Lie groups in terms of the geometry derived from invariant structures associated to the Lie group action. They underline the important connection between the canonical or normal coordinates on a Lie group or Riemannian manifold and the Newton iterate. In this way, the authors recover the geometric interpretation of the Newton iteration that corresponds to the approach taken by \textit{Smith} [PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 1993] or \textit{C. Udrişte} [Convex functions and optimization methods on Riemannian manifolds, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1994; Zbl 0932.53002)], and develop a new point of view in the case of non-compact Lie groups. It is also shown that a Newton algorithm defined using any of the Cartan-Schouten connections displays the local quadratic convergence.