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Unbounded stochastic control problems may lead to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations whose Hamiltonians are not always defined, especially when the diffusion term is unbounded with respect to the control. We obtain existence and uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-09 Francesca Da Lio , Olivier Ley

This paper studies Hamilton-Jacobi equations of evolution type defined in a general metric space. We give a notion of a solution through optimal principles and establish a unique existence theorem of the solution for initial value problems.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-30 Atsushi Nakayasu

We study the large deviations principle for locally periodic stochastic differential equations with small noise and fast oscillating coefficients. There are three possible regimes depending on how fast the intensity of the noise goes to…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-05 Paul Dupuis , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

This paper introduces novel frameworks for large deviations and metastability analysis in heavy-tailed stochastic dynamical systems. We develop and apply these frameworks within the context of stochastic difference equation $X^\eta_{j+1}(x)…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Xingyu Wang , Chang-Han Rhee

In this article, we are concerned with a multidimensional degenerate parabolic-hyperbolic equation driven by Levy processes. Using bounded variation (BV) estimates for vanishing viscosity approximations, we derive an explicit continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Ujjwal Koley , Ananta K. Majee , Guy Vallet

This paper studies the stochastic optimal control of jump-diffusion processes and the associated fully nonlinear backward stochastic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (BSHJB) equations. We establish the dynamic programming principle (DPP) via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Dunxiang Liang , Qingxin Meng

We obtain some important fundamental inequalities concerning the long time behavior of high order derivatives for solutions of some dissipative systems in terms of their $L^2$ algebraic decay. Some of these inequalities have not been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-24 P. Braz e Silva , R. Guterres , C. F. Perusato , P. R. Zingano

In this paper, we explore a new class of stochastic control problems characterized by specific control constraints. Specifically, the admissible controls are subject to the ratcheting constraint, meaning they must be non-decreasing over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Mingxin Guo , Zuo Quan Xu

We introduce some approximation schemes for linear and fully non-linear diffusion equations of Bellman-Isaacs type. Although they are not monotone one can prove their convergence to the viscosity solution of the problem. Effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Xavier Warin

We introduce a method for approximating viscosity solutions of stationary degenerate elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations on bounded domains arising in stochastic exit-time control. Viscosity enforcement is formulated as a min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alen E. Golpashin , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Melkior Ornik , Bruce A. Conway

This paper investigates a class of multiscale stochastic control problems driven by $\alpha$-stable L\'evy noises, where the controlled dynamics evolve across separate slow and fast time scales. The associated value functions are governed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Qi Zhang , Yanjie Zhang , Ao Zhang

This paper provides a systematic investigation of the mathematical structure of path measures and their profound connections to stochastic differential equations (SDEs) through the framework of second-order Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) equations.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jianyu Hu , Qiao Huang , Yuanfei Huang , Jean-Claude Zambrini

Stochastic Spatio-Temporal processes are prevalent across domains ranging from modeling of plasma to the turbulence in fluids to the wave function of quantum systems. This letter studies a measure-theoretic description of such systems by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 George I. Boutselis , Ethan N. Evans , Marcus A. Pereira , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We prove a stochastic representation formula for the viscosity solution of Dirichlet terminal-boundary value problem for a degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman integro-partial differential equation in a bounded domain. We show that the unique…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Ruoting Gong , Chenchen Mou , Andrzej Swiech

We study the problem of parameter estimation using maximum likelihood for fast/slow systems of stochastic differential equations. Our aim is to shed light on the problem of model/data mismatch at small scales. We consider two classes of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-20 A. Papavasiliou , G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart

Stochastic partial differential equations of second order with two unknown parameters are studied. Based on ergodicity, two suitable families of minimum constrast estimators are introduced. Strong consistency and asymptotic normality of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Josef Janak

We consider a class of slow-fast processes on a connected complete Riemannian manifold $M$.The limiting dynamics as the scale separation goes to $\infty$ is governed by the averaging principle. Around this limit, we prove large deviation…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Yanyan Hu , Richard C. Kraaij , Fubao Xi

This paper is concerned with H\"older regularity of viscosity solutions of second-order, fully non-linear elliptic integro-differential equations. Our results rely on two key ingredients: first we assume that, at each point of the domain,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Guy Barles , Emmanuel Chasseigne , Cyril Imbert

We study a stochastic control problem on a bounded domain, which arises from a continuous-time optimal management model. Via the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation the value function is shown to be jointly continuous and to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ruoting Gong , Christian Houdré

We study a class of elastic systems described by a (hyperbolic) partial differential equation. Our working example is the equation of a vibrating string subject to linear disturbance. The main goal is to establish conditions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. I. Caiado , A. V. Sarychev