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We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…

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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

From economics point of view, we investigate a new optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with a multi-time states cost functional. By constructing a series of first-order adjoint equations, we establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Shuzhen Yang

In this paper, we are concerned with a stochastic optimal control problem of mean-field type under partial observation, where the state equation is governed by the controlled nonlinear mean-field stochastic differential equation, moreover…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Maonin Tang , Qingxin Meng

In this paper, we investigate a mean-field singular stochastic optimal control problem for systems governed by mean-field regime-switching singular stochastic differential equations. The state process is assumed to depend on both a regular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Maalvladédon Ganet Somé , Edward Korveh

This article is concerned with an optimal control problem derived by mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equation with noisy observation, where the drift coefficients of the state equation and the observation equation are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Guangchen Wang , Hua Xiao , Guojing Xing

We develop the linear programming approach to mean-field games in a general setting. This relaxed control approach allows to prove existence results under weak assumptions, and lends itself well to numerical implementation. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marcos Leutscher , Peter Tankov

In this paper, we study the optimal control of a discrete-time stochastic differential equation (SDE) of mean-field type, where the coefficients can depend on both a function of the law and the state of the process. We establish a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Arzu Ahmadova , Nazim I. Mahmudov

In this paper we establish a new connection between a class of 2-player nonzero-sum games of optimal stopping and certain $2$-player nonzero-sum games of singular control. We show that whenever a Nash equilibrium in the game of stopping is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Tiziano De Angelis , Giorgio Ferrari

This paper addresses a continuous-time risk-minimizing two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game (SDG), in which each player aims to minimize its probability of failure. Failure occurs in the event when the state of the game enters…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Apurva Patil , Yujing Zhou , David Fridovich-Keil , Takashi Tanaka

In this paper, we study the optimal control system driven by stochastic differential equations (SDEs) of mean-field type, in which the control variable has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. On…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-02 Liangquan Zhang

In this work, we study a class of stationary mean-field games of singular stochastic control under model uncertainty. The representative agent adjusts the dynamics of an It\^o diffusion via one-sided singular stochastic control, aiming to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Giorgio Ferrari , Ioannis Tzouanas

We discuss and compare two methods of investigations for the asymptotic regime of stochastic differential games with a finite number of players as the number of players tends to the infinity. These two methods differ in the order in which…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Rene Carmona , Francois Delarue , Aime Lachapelle

We consider the problem of optimal control of a mean-field stochastic differential equation under model uncertainty. The model uncertainty is represented by ambiguity about the law $\mathcal{L}(X(t))$ of the state $X(t)$ at time $t$. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal

We consider a zero-sum stochastic differential controller-and-stopper game in which the state process is a controlled diffusion evolving in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space. In this game, the controller affects both the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Erhan Bayraktar , Yu-Jui Huang

An optimal control problem is studied for a linear mean-field stochastic differential equation with a quadratic cost functional. The coefficients and the weighting matrices in the cost functional are all assumed to be deterministic.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Xun Li , Jingrui Sun , Jiongmin Yong

This paper study a type of fully coupled mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps under the monotonicity condition, including the existence and the uniqueness of the solution of our equation as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Wenqiang Li , Hui Min

In this paper, we examine the stationary relaxed singular control problem within a multi-dimensional framework for a single agent, as well as its mean field game equivalent. We demonstrate that optimal relaxed controls exist for two problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Asaf Cohen , Chuhao Sun

In this paper we prove a necessary condition of the optimal control problem for a class of general mean-field forward-backward stochastic systems with jumps in the case where the diffusion coefficients depend on control, the control set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tao Hao , Qingxin Meng