%A O. L. Mangasarian %A Jong-Shi Pang %T Exact Penalty Functions for Mathematical Programs with Linear Complementarity Constraints %D August 1996 %R 96-06 %I COMPUTER SCIENCES DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN %C MADISON, WI %X We establish a new general exact penalty function result for a constrained optimization problem and apply this result to a mathematical program with linear complementarity constraints.