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We study the well-posedness of a system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) corresponding to a degenerate mean field type control problem, when the diffusion coefficient depends on the state together with its…

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We study an optimal control problem of McKean--Vlasov branching diffusion processes, in which the interaction term is determined by the marginal measure induced by all alive particles in the system. Accordingly, the value function is…

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We explicitly solve the optimal switching problem for one-dimensional diffusions by directly employing the dynamic programming principle and the excessive characterization of the value function. The shape of the value function and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-25 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami

We study the regularity properties of the value function associated with an affine optimal control problem with quadratic cost plus a potential, for a fixed final time and initial point. Without assuming any condition on singular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Davide Barilari , Francesco Boarotto

This paper studies {a} mixed singular/switching stochastic control problem for a multidimensional diffusion with multiples regimes on a bounded domain. Using probabilistic, partial differential equation (PDE) and penalization techniques, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Mark Kelbert , Harold A. Moreno-Franco

This paper investigates a singular stochastic control problem for a multi-dimensional regime-switching diffusion process confined in an unbounded domain. The objective is to maximize the total expected discounted rewards from exerting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Qingshuo Song , Chao Zhu

We study a stochastic optimal control problem with the state constrained to a smooth, compact domain. The control influences both the drift and a possibly degenerate, control-dependent dispersion matrix, leading to a fully nonlinear,…

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This paper explores the application of nonsmooth analysis in the Wasserstein space to finite-horizon optimal control problems for nonlocal continuity equations. We characterize the value function as a strict viscosity solution of the…

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We consider a wide class of fully nonlinear integro-differential equations that degenerate when the gradient of the solution vanishes. By using compactness and perturbation arguments, we give a complete characterization of the regularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Yuzhou Fang , Vicentiu D. Radulescu , Chao Zhang

This paper studies regularity property of the value function for an infinite-horizon discounted cost impulse control problem, where the underlying controlled process is a multidimensional jump diffusion with possibly `infinite-activity'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-12-18 Mark H. A. Davis , Xin Guo , Guoliang Wu

We obtain optimal boundary and global regularity estimates for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations whose ellipticity degenerates at the critical points of a given solution. We show that any solution is $C^{1,\alpha}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Damião Araújo , Boyan Sirakov

In this manuscript we consider a class optimal control problem for stochastic differential delay equations. First, we rewrite the problem in a suitable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Then, using the dynamic programming approach, we…

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This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

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The Heston stochastic volatility process is a degenerate diffusion process where the degeneracy in the diffusion coefficient is proportional to the square root of the distance to the boundary of the half-plane. The generator of this process…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Paul M. N. Feehan

The problem of identifying the diffusion parameter appearing in a nonlocal steady diffusion equation is considered. The identification problem is formulated as an optimal control problem having a matching functional as the objective of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Marta D'Elia , Max Gunzburger

This paper studies the problem of optimal switching for one-dimensional diffusion, which may be regarded as sequential optimal stopping problem with changes of regimes. The resulting dynamic programming principle leads to a system of…

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In the paper "Dynkin Games Via Dirichlet Forms and Singular Control of One-Dimensional Diffusion", the authors tried to show the existences of a smooth value function and an optimal policy to a one-dimensional stochastic singular control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Yipeng Yang

In this article, first we give a general lemma on the existence of regular homeomorphic solutions $f$ with the hydrodynamic normalization $f(z)=z+o(1)$ as $z\to\infty$ to the degenerate Beltrami equations $\overline{\partial}f=\mu\,\partial…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-01-17 V. Gutlyanskii , V. Ryazanov , E. Sevos'yanov , E. Yakubov