English
Related papers

Related papers: Reflected BSDEs with nonpositive jumps, and contro…

200 papers

We consider reflected generalized backward doubly stochastic differential equations driven by a non-homogeneous L\'evy process. Under stochastic conditions on the coefficients, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution.…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Badr Elmansouri , Mohammed Elhachemy , Mohamed Marzougue , Mohamed El Jamali

In this paper, we are concerned with the averaging problem for a class of forward-backward stochastic differential equations with reflection driven by G-Brownian motion (reflected G-FBSDEs), which corresponds to the singular perturbation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Mengyao Hou

In the first part of the paper, we study reflected backward stochastic differential equations (RBSDEs) with lower obstacle which is assumed to be right upper-semicontinuous but not necessarily right-continuous. We prove existence and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Miryana Grigorova , Peter Imkeller , Elias Offen , Youssef Ouknine , Marie-Claire Quenez

We introduce a new class of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations in which the $T$-terminal value $Y_{T}$ of the solution $(Y,Z)$ is not fixed as a random variable, but only satisfies a weak constraint of the form $E[\Psi(Y_{T})]\ge…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Bruno Bouchard , Romuald Elie , Anthony Réveillac

In this paper, we study reflected backward stochastic difference equations (RBSDEs for short) with finitely many states in discrete time. The general existence and uniqueness result, as well as comparison theorems for the solutions, are…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Lifen An , Samuel N. Cohen , Shaolin Ji

This paper considers a portfolio optimization problem in which asset prices are represented by SDEs driven by Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure, with drifts that are functions of an auxiliary diffusion factor process. The…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-11-16 Mark Davis , Sebastien Lleo

In this paper, we examine a stochastic linear-quadratic control problem characterized by regime switching and Poisson jumps. All the coefficients in the problem are random processes adapted to the filtration generated by Brownian motion and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

We prove an existence and uniqueness result for Neumann boundary problem of a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE for short) with a singular nonlinear divergence term which can only be understood in a weak sense. A probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed probabilistic analysis of the optimal control of nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems of the McKean Vlasov type. Motivated by the recent interest in mean field games, we highlight the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-26 René Carmona , Francois Delarue

This paper considers linear-quadratic (LQ) stochastic leader-follower Stackelberg differential games for jump-diffusion systems with random coefficients. We first solve the LQ problem of the follower using the stochastic maximum principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Jun Moon

An explicit output-feedback boundary feedback law is introduced that stabilizes an unstable linear constant-coefficient reaction-diffusion equation on an $n$-ball (which in 2-D reduces to a disk and in 3-D reduces to a sphere) using only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Rafael Vazquez , Miroslav Krstic

This paper extends our previous work to continuous-time optimal stopping, focusing on American options in an exploratory setting. Our first contribution is an entropy-regularized penalization scheme, inspired by classical penalization…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-04 Daniel Chee , Noufel Frikha , Libo Li

In this paper, the stochastic verification theorems for stochastic control problems of reflected forward-backward stochastic differential equations are studied. We carry out the work within the frameworks of classical and viscosity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Lu Liu , Xinlei Hu , Qingmeng Wei

This paper is concerned with the stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with controlled leading coefficients, which is a type of fully nonlinear backward stochastic partial differential equation (BSPDE for short). In order to formulate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Jinniao Qiu

This work deals with backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with random marked jumps, and their applications to default risk. We show that these BSDEs are linked with Brownian BSDEs through the decomposition of processes with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Idris Kharroubi , Thomas Lim

A relationship between two sided discounted singular control problems and Dynkin games is established for real valued L\'evy processes. In addition, the solution of a two-sided ergodic singular control problem is obtained as the limit of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Ernesto Mordecki , Facundo Oliú

We consider a system of Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs), with time delayed generator and driven by L\`evy-type noise. We establish a non linear Feynman Kac representation formula associating the solution given by…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Luca Di Persio , Matteo Garbelli , Adrian Zălinescu

Conditional McKean-Vlasov control problems involve controlling McKean-Vlasov diffusions where the interaction occurs through the law of the state process conditionally on it staying in a domain. Introduced by Lions in his 2016 lectures at…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-09 René Carmona , Ludovic Tangpi , Kaiwen Zhang

This work establishes two versions of the Pontryagin-type maximum principles for partially observed optimal control of coupled forward stochastic partial differential equations (FSPDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongjiang Qian , George Yin , Yanzhao Cao , Guannan Zhang

This paper studies the robustness of a PDE backstepping delay-compensated boundary controller for a reaction-diffusion partial differential equation (PDE) with respect to a nominal delay subject to stochastic error disturbance. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Dandan Guan , Jie Qi , Mamadou Diagne