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Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations associated with sublinear L\'evy(-type) processes

Probability 2019-06-14 v2 Optimization and Control

Abstract

Using probabilistic methods we study the existence of viscosity solutions to non-linear integro-differential equations tu(t,x)supαI(bα(x)xu(t,x)+12tr(Qα(x)x2u(t,x))+y0(u(t,x+y)u(t,x)xu(t,x)h(y))να(x,dy))=0\partial_t u(t,x) - \sup_{\alpha \in I} \bigg( b_{\alpha}(x) \cdot \nabla_x u(t,x) + \frac{1}{2} \text{tr}\left(Q_{\alpha}(x) \cdot \nabla^2_x u(t,x)\right) +\int_{y \neq 0} \big(u(t,x+y)-u(t,x)-\nabla_x u(t,x) \cdot h(y) \big) \, \nu_{\alpha}(x,dy) \bigg) = 0 with initial condition u(0,x)=φ(x)u(0,x)= \varphi(x); here (bα(x),Qα(x),να(x,dy))(b_{\alpha}(x),Q_{\alpha}(x),\nu_{\alpha}(x,dy)), αI\alpha \in I, xRdx \in \mathbb{R}^d, is a family of L\'evy triplets and hh is some truncation function. The solutions, which we construct, are of the form u(t,x)=Ttφ(x)u(t,x) = T_t \varphi(x) for a sublinear Markov semigroup (Tt)t0(T_t)_{t \geq 0} with representation Ttφ(x)=Exφ(Xt):=supPPxΩφ(Xt)dPT_t \varphi(x) = \mathcal{E}^x \varphi(X_t):= \sup_{\mathbb{P} \in \mathfrak{P}_x} \int_{\Omega} \varphi(X_t) \, d\mathbb{P} where (Xt)t0(X_t)_{t \geq 0} is a stochastic process and Px\mathfrak{P}_x, xRdx \in \mathbb{R}^d, are families of probability measures. The key idea is to exploit the connection between sublinear Markov semigroups and the associated Kolmogorov backward equation. In particular, we obtain new existence and uniqueness results for viscosity solutions to Kolmogorov backward equations associated with L\'evy(-type) processes for sublinear expectations and Feller processes on classical probability spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1808.02332,
  title  = {Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations associated with sublinear L\'evy(-type) processes},
  author = {Franziska Kühn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02332},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

fixed some typos, updated bibliography

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