Newton's method for global free flight trajectory optimization (Q6081827)

The paper considers the second stage of a two-stage algorithm for solving the free flight trajectory optimization problem to global optimality. Specifically, it is shown that under certain assumptions there is a neighborhood around a global minimizer such that Newton's method converges to this minimizer when applied to the KKT conditions. The result requires that the iterates remain in an \(L^\infty\) neighborhood of the minimizer and yields q-linear convergence in \(L^2\). The paper is of theoretical nature in that it does not contain numerical experiments.