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Optimal control, viscosity approximation and Arrhenius Law for the shallow lake problem

Optimization and Control 2024-01-18 v1 Probability

Abstract

We prove existence of optimal control for the deterministic and stochastic shallow lake problem without any restrictions on the parameter space and we establish a generalization of the Arrhenius Law in the case of noise-dependent potentials, which naturally arise in control theory problems. We also prove a result about convergence of the derivatives in the viscosity approximation of the value function and use this result to derive the Arrhenius Law for the shallow lake problem.

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@article{arxiv.2401.07642,
  title  = {Optimal control, viscosity approximation and Arrhenius Law for the shallow lake problem},
  author = {Angeliki Koutsimpela and Michail Loulakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07642},
  year   = {2024}
}
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