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We consider an infinite horizon discounted optimal control problem for piecewise deterministic Markov processes, where a piecewise open-loop control acts continuously on the jump dynamics and on the deterministic flow. For this class of…

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In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the objective functional is described by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation driven by G-Brownian motion. Under standard assumptions, we…

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We formulate a notion of doubly reflected BSDEs with a default time and two completely separated RCLL barriers. We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of the solution. Within the defaultable setup, we introduce a type of generalized…

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A new class of multi-player competitive stochastic games in discrete-time with an affine specification of the redistribution of payoffs at exercise is proposed and examined. Our games cover as a very special case the classic two-person…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Ivan Guo , Marek Rutkowski

In this note, we extend some recent results on systems of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with quadratic growth to the case of coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). We work in a Markovian…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Joe Jackson

We provide a dynamic programming principle for stochastic optimal control problems with expectation constraints. A weak formulation, using test functions and a probabilistic relaxation of the constraint, avoids restrictions related to a…

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We consider a class of stochastic control problems where the state process is a probability measure-valued process satisfying an additional martingale condition on its dynamics, called measure-valued martingales (MVMs). We establish the…

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This paper studies multidimensional mean field games with common noise and the related system of McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations deriving from the stochastic maximum principle. We first propose some…

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We study stochastic Mean Field Games on networks with sticky transition conditions. In this setting, the diffusion process governing the agent's dynamics can spend finite time both in the interior of the edges and at the vertices. The…

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This paper presents a new safety specification method that is robust against errors in the probability distribution of disturbances. Our proposed distributionally robust safe policy maximizes the probability of a system remaining in a…

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It is well known that stability is the most fundamental nature with regard to a control system, in view of this, the stabilization becomes an inevitable control problem. This article mainly discusses the optimal control and stabilization…

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This paper is devoted to studying an infinite time horizon stochastic recursive control problem with jumps, where infinite time horizon stochastic differential equation and backward stochastic differential equation with jumps describe the…

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In this paper, we study pinning control problem of coupled dynamical systems with stochastically switching couplings and stochastically selected controller-node set. Here, the coupling matrices and the controller-node sets change with time,…

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Leader-follower general-sum stochastic games (LF-GSSGs) model sequential decision-making under asymmetric commitment, where a leader commits to a policy and a follower best responds, yielding a strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) with…

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We study a class of zero-sum stochastic games between a stopper and a singular-controller, previously considered in [Bovo and De Angelis (2025)]. The underlying singularly-controlled dynamics takes values in…

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Maximising a cumulative reward function that is Markov and stationary, i.e., defined over state-action pairs and independent of time, is sufficient to capture many kinds of goals in a Markov decision process (MDP). However, not all goals…

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We investigate the existence and uniqueness of non-Markovian second-order backward stochastic differential equations with an uncertain terminal horizon and establish comparison principles under the assumption that the driver is Lipschitz…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Alberto Gennaro , Thibaut Mastrolia

We develop a martingale approach for studying continuous-time stochastic differential games of control and stopping, in a non-Markovian framework and with the control affecting only the drift term of the state-process. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-28 Ioannis Karatzas , Ingrid-Mona Zamfirescu

In this paper we study the problem of Multiplicative Poisson Equation (MPE) bounded solution existence in the generic discrete-time setting. Assuming mixing and boundedness of the risk-reward function, we investigate what conditions should…

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