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We show that necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality in periodic optimization problems can be stated in terms of a solution of the corresponding HJB inequality, the latter being equivalent to a max-min type variational problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Vladimir Gaitsgory , Ludmila Manic

We study a time-optimal control problem of a two-peakon collision. First, we state the controllability. Next, we find the time-optimal strategy. This is done via the HamiltonJacobi-Bellman equation and the dynamic programming method. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Tomasz Cieślak , Bidesh Das

Stochastic optimal control problems governed by delay equations with delay in the control are usually more difficult to study than the the ones when the delay appears only in the state. This is particularly true when we look at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Fausto Gozzi , Federica Masiero

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem for a forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE, for short) with a recursive cost functional determined by a backward stochastic Volterra integral equation (BSVIE, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong , Chao Zhou

In this paper, we explore a new class of stochastic control problems characterized by specific control constraints. Specifically, the admissible controls are subject to the ratcheting constraint, meaning they must be non-decreasing over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Mingxin Guo , Zuo Quan Xu

This paper deals with a class of time inconsistent stochastic linear quadratic (SLQ) optimal control problems in Markovian framework. Three notions, i.e., closed-loop equilibrium controls/strategies, open-loop equilibrium controls and their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Tianxiao Wang

Stochastic optimal control problems governed by delay equations with delay in the control are usually more difficult to study than the the ones when the delay appears only in the state. This is particularly true when we look at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-22 F. Gozzi , F. Masiero

This paper is concerned with a stochastic recursive optimal control problem with time delay, where the controlled system is described by a stochastic differential delayed equation (SDDE) and the cost functional is formulated as the solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Jingtao Shi , Huanshui Zhang

In this paper, we continue our study on a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear--quadratic (LQ) control problem originally formulated in [6]. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium controls via a flow of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-27 Ying Hu , Hanqing Jin , Xun Yu Zhou

This paper develops a framework for establishing the existence of solutions to the equilibrium Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (EHJB) equation arising in time-inconsistent stochastic control problems. The time-inconsistency in our setting arises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Zhenhua Wang , Xiang Yu , Jingjie Zhang , Zhou Zhou

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the system is governed by a functional forward-backward stochastic differential equation. Under standard assumptions, we establish the dynamic programming…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

This paper proposes a new framework to model control systems in which a dynamic friction occurs. The model consists in a controlled differential inclusion with a discontinuous right hand side, which still preserves existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Fabio Tedone , Michele Palladino

This paper studies a class of time-inconsistent mean field control (MFC) problems in the presence of common noise under non-exponential discount and joint law dependence of both state and control. We investigate the closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Zongxia Liang , Xiang Yu , Keyu Zhang

This paper investigates a class of multiscale stochastic control problems driven by $\alpha$-stable L\'evy noises, where the controlled dynamics evolve across separate slow and fast time scales. The associated value functions are governed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Qi Zhang , Yanjie Zhang , Ao Zhang

Linear-quadratic optimal control problems are considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. Time-inconsistency feature of the problems is carefully investigated. Both open-loop and closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Jiongmin Yong

Continuous-time reinforcement learning offers an appealing formalism for describing control problems in which the passage of time is not naturally divided into discrete increments. Here we consider the problem of predicting the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Harley Wiltzer , David Meger , Marc G. Bellemare

This paper is concerned with the open-loop time-consistent solution of time-inconsistent mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control. Different from standard stochastic linear-quadratic problems, both the system matrices and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Yuan-Hua Ni , Ji-Feng Zhang , Miroslav Krstic

In this paper, a stochastic optimal control problem is investigated in which the system is governed by a stochastic functional differential equation. In the framework of functional It\^o calculus, we build the dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

We consider a class of closed loop stochastic optimal control problems in finite time horizon, in which the cost is an expectation conditional on the event that the process has not exited a given bounded domain. An important difficulty is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Yves Achdou , Mathieu Laurière , Pierre-Louis Lions

This work addresses stochastic optimal control problems where the unknown state evolves in continuous time while partial, noisy, and possibly controllable measurements are only available in discrete time. We develop a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Christian Bayer , Boualem Djehiche , Eliza Rezvanova , Raul Fidel Tempone