On unique solvability of the piecewise linear equation system

Abstract

In this article, we take the piecewise linear equation system \(x-W|x|=b\), which is also known by absolute value equation, where \(W\in {\mathbb R}^ {n\times n}\), \(b\in {\mathbb R}^{n}\) are given and to undetermined the value of \(x\in {\mathbb R}^{n}\). The absolute value equation (AVE) has many applications in various fields of mathematics like bi-matrix games, linear interval systems, linear complementarity problems (LCP) etc. By the equivalence relation of AVE with LCP, some necessary and sufficient conditions proved the existence and unique solvability of the AVE. Some examples are also provided to highlight the current singular value conditions for a unique solution that may revise in the future.

Keywords

• Unique solvability
• Absolute value equations
• Linear complementarity problem