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In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

In this article, we provide sufficient conditions under which the controlled vector fields solution of optimal control problems formulated on continuity equations are Lipschitz regular in space. Our approach involves a novel combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi

We study the time-optimal robust control of a two-level quantum system subjected to field inhomogeneities. We apply the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and we introduce a reduced space onto which the optimal dynamics is projected down. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 O. Fresse-Colson , S. Guérin , Xi Chen , D. Sugny

We discuss a mathematical framework for analysis of optimal control problems on infinite-dimensional manifolds. Such problems arise in study of optimization for partial differential equations with some symmetry. It is shown that some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Robert J. Kipka , Yuri S. Ledyaev

We study optimal control for mean-field forward backward stochastic differential equations with payoff functionals of mean-field type. Sufficient and necessary optimality conditions in terms of a stochastic maximum principle are derived. As…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Nacira Agram , Salah Eddine Choutri

In this paper, we derive a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for general finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal sampled-data control problems. Our framework is actually much more general, and we treat optimal control problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

In this article, the sufficient Pontryagin's maximum principle for infinite horizon discounted stochastic control problem is established. The sufficiency is ensured by an additional assumption of concavity of the Hamiltonian function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Bohdan Maslowski , Petr Veverka

This note outlines a mean-field approach to dynamic optimal transport problems based on the recently proposed McKean-Pontryagin maximum principle. Key aspects of the proposed methodology include i) avoidance of sampling over stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Sebastian Reich

We present a new geometric unfolding of a prototype problem of optimal control theory, the Mayer problem. This approach is crucially based on the Stokes Theorem and yields to a necessary and sufficient condition that characterizes the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Franco Cardin , Andrea Spiro

We derive a first order optimality condition for a class of agent-based systems, as well as for their mean-field counterpart. A relevant difficulty of our analysis is that the state equation is formulated on possibly infinite-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Stefano Almi , Riccardo Durastanti , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we present a framework for solving continuous optimal control problems when the true system dynamics are approximated through an imperfect model. We derive a control strategy by applying Pontryagin's Minimum Principle to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the stochastic Pontryagin maximum principle, for controlled equation with delay in the state and with control dependent noise, in the general case of controls $u…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

This paper considers the problem of partially observed optimal control for forward stochastic systems which are driven by Brownian motions and an independent Poisson random measure with a feature that the cost functional is of mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Yaozhong Hu , David Nualart , Qing Zhou

We study a class of optimal control problems governed by nonlinear stochastic equations of monotone type under certain coercivity and linear growth conditions. We give first order necessary conditions of optimality. A stochastic Pontryagin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ioana Ciotir , Nicolas Forcadel , Piero Visconti , Hasnaa Zidani

In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the stochastic Pontryagin maximum principle, for controlled equations with pointwise delay in the state and with control dependent noise, in the general case of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

We consider optimal control problems, where the control appears in the main part of the operator. We derive the Pontryagin maximum principle as a necessary optimality condition. The proof uses the concept of topological derivatives. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Daniel Wachsmuth

We prove a stochastic maximum principle ofPontryagin's type for the optimal control of a stochastic partial differential equationdriven by white noise in the case when the set of control actions is convex. Particular attention is paid to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Marco Fuhrman , Ying Hu , Gianmario Tessitore

For an optimal control problem, the concept of a strong local infimum is introduce, for which necessary conditions consisting of some family of "maximum principles" are formulated. If a function delivers a strong local minimum in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Evgeny Avakov , Georgii Magaril-Il'yaev

In this work, we systematically investigate mean field games and mean field type control problems with multiple populations using a coupled system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations of McKean-Vlasov type stemming from…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Masaaki Fujii

We consider the free endpoint Mayer problem for a controlled Moreau process, the control acting as a perturbation of the dynamics driven by the normal cone, and derive necessary optimality conditions of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle type.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Chems Eddine Arroud , Giovanni Colombo