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An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation containing a state-dependent regime switching, with a recursive cost functional. Due to the non-exponential discounting in the cost functional, the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Hongwei Mei , Jiongmin Yong

A learning technique for finite horizon optimal control problems and its approximation based on polynomials is analyzed. It allows to circumvent, in part, the curse dimensionality which is involved when the feedback law is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Karl Kunisch , Donato Vásquez-Varas

Here, we study the generalized semiconcavity property of viscosity solutions of the Neumann boundary value problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In particular, we establish the global semiconcavity with a fractional modulus by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Panrui Ni

We introduce a method for approximating viscosity solutions of stationary degenerate elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations on bounded domains arising in stochastic exit-time control. Viscosity enforcement is formulated as a min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alen E. Golpashin , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Melkior Ornik , Bruce A. Conway

We give a meaning to the Hamilton--Jacobi equation arising from mean-field spin glass models in the viscosity sense, and establish the corresponding well-posedness. Originally defined on the set of monotone probability measures, these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Hong-Bin Chen , Jiaming Xia

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

In this paper we use the theory of viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations to study propagation phenomena in kinetic equations. We perform the hydrodynamic limit of some kinetic models thanks to an adapted WKB ansatz. Our models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Emeric Bouin

We present comparison principles, Lipschitz estimates and study state constraints problems for degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Scott N. Armstrong , Hung V. Tran

A junction is a particular network given by the collection of $N\ge 1$ half lines $[0,+\infty)$ glued together at the origin. On such a junction, we consider evolutive Hamilton-Jacobi equations with $N$ coercive Hamiltonians. Furthermore,we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Nicolas Forcadel , Regis Monneau

A classical problem in ergodic continuous time control consists of studying the limit behavior of the optimal value of a discounted cost functional with infinite horizon as the discount factor $\lambda$ tends to zero. In the literature,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Piermarco Cannarsa , Stephane Gaubert , Cristian Mendico , Marc Quincampoix

We consider a stochastic optimal control problem governed by a stochastic differential equation with delay in the control. Using a result of existence and uniqueness of a sufficiently regular mild solution of the associated…

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

In this paper, problems of optimal control are considered where in the objective function, in addition to the control cost there is a tracking term that measures the distance to a desired stationary state. The tracking term is given by some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Martin Gugat , Michael Schuster , Enrique Zuazua

In this paper, we introduce Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations for Q-functions in continuous time optimal control problems with Lipschitz continuous controls. The standard Q-function used in reinforcement learning is shown to be the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

Combing the weak KAM method for contact Hamiltonian systems and the theory of viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, we study the Lyapunov stability and instability of viscosity solutions for evolutionary contact Hamilton-Jacobi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Yang Xu , Jun Yan , Kai Zhao

We consider an initial value problem for a Hamilton--Jacobi equation with a quadratic and degenerate Hamiltonian. Our Hamiltonian comes from the dynamics of $N$-peakon in the Camassa--Holm equation. It is given by a quadratic form with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Tomasz Cieślak , Jakub Siemianowski , Andrzej Święch

This paper is devoted to the stochastic optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations allowing for both path-dependence and measurable randomness. As opposed to the deterministic path-dependent cases, the value function turns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Jinniao Qiu

Employing a suitable nonlinear Lagrange functional, we derive generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equations for dynamical systems subject to linear velocity constraints. As long as a solution of the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equation exists, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Pavon

We study one-parametric perturbations of finite dimensional real Hamiltonians depending on two controls, and we show that generically in the space of Hamiltonians, conical intersections of eigenvalues can degenerate into semi-conical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Nicolas Augier , Ugo Boscain , Mario Sigalotti

How to free a road from vehicle traffic as efficiently as possible and in a given time, in order to allow for example the passage of emergency vehicles? We are interested in this question which we reformulate as an optimal control problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Mickael Bestard , Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Yannick Privat

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Filippo de Feo , Salvatore Federico , Andrzej Święch