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Viscosity solutions to HJB equations associated with optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov SDEs

Probability 2023-10-19 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

This work concerns the optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov SDEs. In order to characterize the value function, we develop the viscosity solution theory for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on the Wasserstein space using Mortensen's derivative. In particular, a comparison principle for viscosity solution is established. Our approach is based on Borwein-Preiss variational principle to overcome the loss of compactness for bounded sets in the Wasserstein space.

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@article{arxiv.2310.11474,
  title  = {Viscosity solutions to HJB equations associated with optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov SDEs},
  author = {Jinghai Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11474},
  year   = {2023}
}

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28 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2310.10950