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This paper provides necessary conditions of optimality for optimal control problems with time delays in both state and control variables. Different versions of the necessary conditions cover fixed end-time problems and, under additional…

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We establish necessary conditions of optimality for discrete-time infinite-horizon optimal control in presence of constraints at infinity. These necessary conditions are in form of weak and strong Pontryagin principles. We use a functional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-09 Joel Blot , Thoi Ngo

In this paper, we first give the existence and uniqueness theorems for generalized mean-filed delay stochastic differential equations (GMFDSDEs) and mean-field anticipated backward stochastic differential equations (MFABSDEs). Then we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Hancheng Guo , Jie Xiong , Jiayu Zheng

The paper concerns the study of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for an infinite dimensional and infinite horizon boundary control problem for linear partial differential equations. The optimal control model has already been studied both in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-26 Silvia Faggian

This paper is concerned with the maximum principle of stochastic optimal control problems, where the coefficients of the state equation and the cost functional are uncertain, and the system is generally under Markovian regime switching.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Tao Hao , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

We analyze the problem of stochastic optimal control of SDEs where the driver includes a self-exciting stochastic process. Due to the non-Markovian nature of the problem, we apply the stochastic maximum principle approach. We derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Heidar Eyjolfsson , Kristina Rognlien Dahl

In this paper, we consider optimal control of stochastic differential equations subject to an expected path constraint. The stochastic maximum principle is given for a general optimal stochastic control in terms of constrained FBSDEs. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Ying Hu , Shanjian Tang , Zuo Quan Xu

A general stochastic maximum principle is proved for optimal controls of semilinear stochastic evolution equations. Stochastic evolution operators, and the control with values in a general set enter into both drift and diffusion terms.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng

This paper is concerned with the distributed control and stabilization problems for linear discrete-time large scale systems with imposed constraints. The main contributions of this paper are: Firstly, by using the maximum principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Qingyuan Qi , Huanshui Zhang , Peijun Ju

From economics point of view, we investigate a new optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with a multi-time states cost functional. By constructing a series of first-order adjoint equations, we establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Shuzhen Yang

We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of controls is not necessarily convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We establish necessary as well as sufficient conditions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

Stochastic maximum principle of nonlinear controlled forward-backward systems, where the set of strict (classical) controls need not be convex and the diffusion coefficient depends explicitly on the variable control, is an open problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

In this paper, we generalise Pontryagin's stochastic maximum principle to controlled McKean-Vlasov equations with anticipating law. The associated new type of delayed backward equations with implicit terminal condition is studied.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Nacira Agram

We establish a variety of results extending the well-known Pontryagin maximum principle of optimal control to discrete-time optimal control problems posed on smooth manifolds. These results are organized around a new theorem on critical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Robert Kipka , Rohit Gupta

We consider a control problem constrained by the unsteady stochastic Stokes equations with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions in connected and bounded domains. In this paper, controls are defined inside the domain as well as on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

The minimization of energy-like cost functionals is addressed in the context of optimal control problems. For a general class of dynamical systems, with possibly unstable and nonlinear free dynamics, it is shown that a sequence of solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Sérgio S. Rodrigues

In the present paper, the maximum principle for finite horizon state constrained problems from the book by R. Vinter [\textit{Optimal Control}, Birkh\"auser, Boston, 2000; Theorem~9.3.1] is analyzed via parametric examples. The latter has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Vu Thi Huong , Jen-Chih Yao , Nguyen Dong Yen

In the present paper, the maximum principle for finite horizon state constrained problems from the book by R. Vinter [\textit{Optimal Control}, Birkh\"auser, Boston, 2000; Theorem~9.3.1] is analyzed via parametric examples. The latter has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Vu Thi Huong , Jen-Chih Yao , Nguyen Dong Yen

This paper investigates the optimal control of a bilinear damped wave equation over an infinite time horizon. We establish the well-posedness of the controlled system and derive uniform energy estimates. The existence of optimal controls is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Redouane El Mezegueldy , Zakarya Dardour

In the present paper we derive, via a backward induction technique, and ad hoc maximum principle for an optimal control problem with multiple random terminal times. Therefore we apply the aforementioned result to the case of a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Francesco Cordoni , Luca Di Persio