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This article deals with a stochastic control problem for certain fluids of non-Newtonian type. More precisely, the state equation is given by the two-dimensional stochastic second grade fluids perturbed by a multiplicative white noise. The…

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This paper develops a comprehensive framework for optimal control of systems governed by fractional backward stochastic evolution equations (FBSEEs) in Hilbert spaces. We first establish a stochastic maximum principle (SMP) as a necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Javad A. Asadzade , Nazim I. Mahmudov

We obtain a probabilistic solution to linear-quadratic optimal control problems with state constraints. Given a closed set $\mathcal{D}\subseteq [0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^d$, a diffusion $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ must be linearly controlled in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Tiziano De Angelis , Erik Ekström

In this paper, we aim to solve the high dimensional stochastic optimal control problem from the view of the stochastic maximum principle via deep learning. By introducing the extended Hamiltonian system which is essentially an FBSDE with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Shaolin Ji , Shige Peng , Ying Peng , Xichuan Zhang

This paper considers linear-quadratic control of a non-linear dynamical system subject to arbitrary cost. I show that for this class of stochastic control problems the non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation can be transformed into a…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. J. Kappen

We study the linear-quadratic control problem for a class of non-exchangeable mean-field systems, which model large populations of heterogeneous interacting agents. We explicitly characterize the optimal control in terms of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Anna de Crescenzo , Filippo de Feo , Huyên Pham

This paper aims to establish second order necessary conditions for optimal control in quantum stochastic systems. We employ a variational approach, analogous to methods in classical stochastic control, to analyze systems governed by quantum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Penghui Wang , Shan Wang

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for a generalized Volterra control system. The corresponding state process is a kind of a generalized stochastic Volterra integral differential equations. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Yuhang Li , Yuecai Han

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusion systems whose drift coefficient is piecewise Lipschitz continuous and exhibits threshold-induced discontinuities. Such dynamics naturally arise in applications with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Antoine-Marie Bogso , Edward Fuituh Kameh , Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Felix Shu

This paper investigates a mean-field linear-quadratic optimal control problem where the state dynamics and cost functional incorporate both expectation and conditional expectation terms. We explicitly derive the pre-committed, na\"{\i}ve,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We address a class of backward stochastic differential equations on a bounded interval, where the driving noise is a marked, or multivariate, point process. Assuming that the jump times are totally inaccessible and a technical condition…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Fulvia Confortola , Marco Fuhrman , Jean Jacod

This paper is concerned with a backward stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with deterministic coefficients. The weighting matrices are allowed to be indefinite, and cross-product terms in the control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Jingrui Sun , Zhen Wu , Jie Xiong

We obtain a maximum principle for stochastic control problem of general controlled stochastic differential systems driven by fractional Brownian motions (of Hurst parameter $H>1/2$). This maximum principle specifies a system of equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Yuecai Han , Yaozhong Hu , Jian Song

We study a coupled system of controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by a Brownian motion and a compensated Poisson random measure, consisting of a forward SDE in the unknown process $X(t)$ and a \emph{predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

In this article, we consider a stochastic linear quadratic control problem with partial observation. A near optimal control in the weak formulation is characterized. The main features of this paper are the presence of the control in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

This paper aims to explore the relationship between maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for stochastic recursive control problem with random coefficients. Under certain regular conditions for the coefficients, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Yuchao Dong , Qingxin Meng , Qi Zhang

This paper investigates the stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem of Markov regime switching system. The representation of the cost functional for the stochastic LQ optimal control problem of Markov regime…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Xin Zhang , Xun Li

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for a linear homogeneous stochastic differential equation having regime switching with purely quadratic functional in the large time horizons. We establish the so-called turnpike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Hongwei Mei , Rui Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We study a linear quadratic optimal control problem with stochastic coefficients and a terminal state constraint, which may be in force merely on a set with positive, but not necessarily full probability. Under such a partial terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Peter Bank , Moritz Voß

This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem with regime switching, random coefficients, and cone control constraint. The randomness of the coefficients comes from two aspects: the Brownian motion and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu