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We introduce a novel class of semilinear nonlocal backward stochastic partial differential equations (BSPDE) on half-spaces driven by an infinite-dimensional c\`adl\`ag martingale. The equations exhibit a degeneracy and have no explicit…

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Although there is a substantial body of literature on control and optimization problems for parabolic and hyperbolic systems, the specific problem of controlling and optimizing the coefficients of the associated operators within such…

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