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The dynamic programming approach for the control of a 3D flow governed by the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluid in a bounded domain is studied. By a compactness argument, existence of solutions for the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Manca

The geometric formulation of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory enables us to generalize it to systems of higher-order ordinary differential equations. In this work we introduce the unified Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formalism for the geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 Leonardo Colombo , Manuel de León , Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

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

We establish existence and uniqueness of minimax solutions for a fairly general class of path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In particular, the relevant Hamiltonians can contain the solution and they only need to be measurable with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Elena Bandini , Christian Keller

We provide a data-driven framework for optimal control of a continuous-time stochastic dynamical system. The proposed framework relies on the linear operator theory involving linear Perron-Frobenius (P-F) and Koopman operators. Our first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Umesh Vaidya , Duvan Tellez-Castro

This paper proposes an algorithmic technique for a class of optimal control problems where it is easy to compute a pointwise minimizer of the Hamiltonian associated with every applied control. The algorithm operates in the space of relaxed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-10 M. T. Hale , Y. Wardi , H. Jaleel , M. Egerstedt

Optimal feedback control with implicit Hamiltonians poses a fundamental challenge for learning-based value function methods due to the absence of closed-form optimal control laws. Recent work~\cite{gelphman2025end} introduced an implicit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Eric Gelphman , Deepanshu Verma , Nicole Tianjiao Yang , Stanley Osher , Samy Wu Fung

A tensor decomposition approach for the solution of high-dimensional, fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in optimal feedback control of nonlinear dynamics is presented. The method combines a tensor train approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Sergey Dolgov , Dante Kalise , Karl Kunisch

We study a multiscale stochastic optimal control problem subject to state constraints on the slow variable. To address this class of problems, we develop a rigorous theoretical framework based on singular perturbation analysis, tailored to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Anderson O. Calixto , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Glauco Valle

We study the well-posedness of an infinite-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi equation posed on the set of non-negative measures and with a monotonic non-linearity. Our results will be used in a companion work to propose a conjecture and prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Tomas Dominguez , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

The most common physical formalisms are the Lagrangian formalism and the Hamiltonian formalism. From the superficial point of view, they are one and the same, but rewritten in other terms. However, it seems that the Hamiltonian formalism…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Dmitry S. Kulyabov , Anna V. Korolkova , Migran N. Gevorkyan , Leonid A. Sevastianov

In this work, we develop a control-theoretic framework for constrained optimization problems with composite objective functions including non-differentiable terms. Building on the proximal augmented Lagrangian formulation, we construct a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 V. Cerone , S. M. Fosson , S. Pirrera , A. Re , D. Regruto

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 deals with a stochastic recursive optimal control problem, where the diffusion coefficient depends on the control variable and the control domain is not necessarily convex. We focus on the connection between the general maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Tianyang Nie , Jingtao Shi , Zhen Wu

The purpose of this note is to propose a new approach for the probabilistic interpretation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations associated with stochastic recursive optimal control problems, utilizing the representation theorem for…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Lishun Xiao , Shengjun Fan , Dejian Tian

We study a family of stationary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations in Hilbert spaces arising from stochastic optimal control problems. The main difficulties to treat such problems are: the lack of smoothing properties of the linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Gabriele Bolli , Fausto Gozzi

The geometric framework for the Hamilton-Jacobi theory is used to study this theory in the ambient of higher-order mechanical systems, both in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms. Thus, we state the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 Leonardo Colombo , Manuel de León , Pedro Daniel Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

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

We explore the approximation of feedback control of integro-differential equations containing a fractional Laplacian term. To obtain feedback control for the state variable of this nonlocal equation we use the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Alessandro Alla , Marta D'Elia , Christian Glusa , Hugo Oliveira

We study the Cauchy problem of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with the spatial variable in a closed convex cone. A monotonicity assumption on the nonlinearity allows us to prescribe no condition on the boundary of the cone. We show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Hong-Bin Chen , Jiaming Xia