\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 00638728} \itemau{Wu, S.Q.; Wu, F.} \itemti{Rank-one techniques in log-barrier function methods for linear programming.} \itemso{J. Optimization Theory Appl. 82, No.2, 405-413 (1994).} \itemab Summary: This short paper presents a primal interior-point method for linear programming. The method can be viewed as a modification of the methods developed earlier. In each iteration, it computes an approximately projected Newton direction and needs $O(n^{2.5})$ arithmetic operations to make the log-barrier function significantly decrease. It requires $O(\sqrt{nL})$ iterations, so that the total complexity is $O(n^3L)$. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{Karmarkar's method; rank-one techniques; primal interior-point method; approximately projected Newton direction; log-barrier function} \itemli{doi:10.1007/BF02191863} \end