Convergence of quasi-Newton method with new inexact line search

Quasi-Newton method is a well-known effective method for solving optimization problems. Since it is a line search method, which needs a line search procedure after determining a search direction at each iteration, we must decide a line search rule to choose a step size along a search direction. In this paper, we propose a new inexact line search rule for quasi-Newton method and establish some global convergent results of this method. These results are useful in designing new quasi-Newton methods. Moreover, we analyze the convergence rate of quasi-Newton method with the new line search rule.  2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.