%A J.-C. Gilbert %J Optimization %T On the local and global convergence of a reduced Quasi-Newton method1 %X In optimization in Rn with m nonlinear equality constraints, we study the local convergence of reduced quasi-newton methods, in which the updated matrix is of order n–m. Furthermore, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for superlinear convergence (in one step) and we introduce a device to globalize the local algorithm. It consists in determining a step along an arc in order to decrease an exact penalty function and we give conditions so that asymptotically the step-size will be equal to one. © 1989, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. %N 4 %P 421-450 %V 20 %D 1989 %I Taylor and Francis Ltd. %R 10.1080/02331938908843462 %L iiasa14072