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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…

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Conditional McKean-Vlasov control problems involve controlling McKean-Vlasov diffusions where the interaction occurs through the law of the state process conditionally on it staying in a domain. Introduced by Lions in his 2016 lectures at…

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This paper studies the dynamic programming principle using the measurable selection method for stochastic control of continuous processes. The novelty of this work is to incorporate intermediate expectation constraints on the canonical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Yuk-Loong Chow , Xiang Yu , Chao Zhou

This work investigates the optimal control problem for reflected McKean-Vlasov SDEs and the viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman(HJB) equations on the Wasserstein space in terms of intrinsic derivative. It follows from the flow…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Jinghai Shao

This paper investigates the relationship between Pontryagin's maximum principle and dynamic programming principle in the context of stochastic optimal control systems governed by stochastic evolution equations with random coefficients in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Dingqian Gao , Qi Lü

In this manuscript we consider optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations with delays in the state and in the control. First, we prove an equivalent Markovian reformulation on Hilbert spaces of the state equation. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Filippo de Feo

This paper is concerned with the relationship between maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for risk-sensitive stochastic optimal control problems. Under the smooth assumption of the value function, relations among the adjoint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Huanqing Dong , Jingtao Shi

We establish an algebraic rate of convergence in the large number of players limit of the value functions of N-particle stochastic control problems towards the value function of the corresponding McKean-Vlasov problem also known as mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Samuel Daudin , Joe Jackson , Panagiotis Souganidis

In this work we study the stochastic recursive control problem, in which the aggregator (or called generator) of the backward stochastic differential equation describing the running cost is continuous but not necessarily Lipschitz with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Jiangyan Pu , Qi Zhang

We study the Bellman equation in the Wasserstein space arising in the study of mean field control problems, namely stochastic optimal control problems for McKean-Vlasov diffusion processes.Using the standard notion of viscosity solution \`a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Andrea Cosso , Fausto Gozzi , Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham , Mauro Rosestolato

We study zero-sum stochastic differential games where the state dynamics of the two players is governed by a generalized McKean-Vlasov (or mean-field) stochastic differential equation in which the distribution of both state and controls of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Huyen Pham , Andrea Cosso

In this paper, we study the delayed stochastic recursive optimal control problem with a non-Lipschitz generator, in which both the dynamics of the control system and the recursive cost functional depend on the past path segment of the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Jiaqiang Wen , Zhen Wu , Qi Zhang

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Alexander M. G. Cox , Sigrid Källblad , Martin Larsson , Sara Svaluto-Ferro

In this paper, we study a stochastic optimal control problem under degenerate G-expectation. By using implied partition method, we show that the approximation result for admissible controls still hold. Based on this result, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Xiaojuan Li

We study optimal control problems for interacting branching diffusion processes, a class of measure-valued dynamics capturing both spatial motion and branching mechanisms. From the perspective of the dynamic programming principle, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Antonio Ocello

This paper is concerned with stochastic impulse control problems in which the running cost changes depending on the impulse control. Because of such a dependence, it brings several difficulties when the usual dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yuchen Cao , Jiongmin Yong

An optimal control problem in the space of probability measures, and the viscosity solutions of the corresponding dynamic programming equations defined using the intrinsic linear derivative are studied. The value function is shown to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 H. Mete Soner , Qinxin Yan

In this paper, we study the relationship between general maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for risk-sensitive stochastic optimal control problems, where the control domain is not necessarily convex. The original problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Huanqing Dong , Jingtao Shi

In this manuscript, we study optimal control problems for stochastic delay differential equations using the dynamic programming approach in Hilbert spaces via viscosity solutions of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Filippo de Feo , Andrzej Święch

We consider the problem of stochastic optimal control, where the state-feedback control policies take the form of a probability distribution and where a penalty on the entropy is added. By viewing the cost function as a Kullback- Leibler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Marc Lambert , Francis Bach , Silvère Bonnabel