“…In [13,15] the transformation is achieved by the square root function. Since then, this technique has been extended to different types of optimization problems, for LCP [1,3,5,6,34,39,44,46], for convex quadratic programming (CQP) [2], for semidefinite programing (SDP) [7,45], for second-order cone programming (SOCP) [46] and symmetric optimization (SO) [33,47].…”