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\title{The Gauss-Newton Direction for Interior-Point Methods in Linear and
Semidefinite Programming}
 
\abstract{
We present a new paradigm for deriving interior point
methods for linear and semidefinite programming. This is based on
applying the Gauss-Newton method to solving the nonlinear optimality
conditions.
Though this paradigm does not provide a new search direction for linear
programming, it does provide a new viewpoint and
a new efficient direction for SDP that requires no symmetrization.

\author{\underbar{Henry Wolkowicz}\\
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada\\
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}

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%Henry Wolkowicz                |Fax:   (519) 725-5441
%University of Waterloo         |Tel:   (519) 888-4567, 1+ext. 5589
%Dept of Comb and Opt           |email:  henry@orion.math.uwaterloo.ca
%Waterloo, Ont. CANADA N2L 3G1  |URL: http://orion.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi