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An Euler discretization of the Langevin diffusion is known to converge to the global minimizers of certain convex and non-convex optimization problems. We show that this property holds for any suitably smooth diffusion and that different…

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In theory, diffusion curves promise complex color gradations for infinite-resolution vector graphics. In practice, existing realizations suffer from poor scaling, discretization artifacts, or insufficient support for rich boundary…

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Solutions of the Dirichlet and Robin boundary value problems for the multi-term variable-distributed order diffusion equation are studied. A priori estimates for the corresponding differential and difference problems are obtained by using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-31 A. A. Alikhanov

We characterize the optimal control for a class of singular stochastic control problems as the unique solution to a related Skorokhod reflection problem. The considered optimization problems concern the minimization of a discounted cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari

In the paper "Dynkin Games Via Dirichlet Forms and Singular Control of One-Dimensional Diffusion", the authors tried to show the existences of a smooth value function and an optimal policy to a one-dimensional stochastic singular control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Yipeng Yang

In this paper we prove a version of the maximum principle, in the sense of Pontryagin, for the optimal control of a finite dimensional stochastic differential equation, driven by a multidimensional Wiener process. We drop the usual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Carlo Orrieri

This work aims to control the dynamics of certain non-Newtonian fluids in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$ perturbed by a multiplicative Wiener noise, the control acts as a predictable distributed random force, and the goal is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Yassine Tahraoui , Fernanda Cipriano

This article is dedicated to unifying the framework used to derive the Wiener--Hopf equations arising from some discrete and continuous wave diffraction problems.The main tools are the discrete Green's identity and the appropriate notion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 A. I. Korolkov , R. C. Assier , A. V. Kisil

We consider stochastic control with discretionary stopping for the drift of a diffusion process over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to choose a control process and a stopping time to minimize the expectation of a convex terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Václav E. Beneš , Georgy Gaitsgori , Ioannis Karatzas

Consider the sample path of a one-dimensional diffusion for which the diffusion coefficient is given and where the drift may take on one of two values: $\mu_0$ or $\mu_1$. Suppose that the signal-to-noise ratio (defined as the difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Philip Ernst , Hongwei Mei

We present discrete-time approximation of optimal control policies for infinite horizon discounted/ergodic control problems for controlled diffusions in $\Rd$\,. In particular, our objective is to show near optimality of optimal policies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Somnath Pradhan , Serdar Yuksel

The paper presents error estimates within a unified abstract framework for the analysis of FEM for boundary value problems with linear diffusion-convection-reaction equations and boundary conditions of mixed type. Since neither conformity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Lutz Angermann , Peter Knabner , Andreas Rupp

We investigate the stability of the equilibrium-induced optimal value in one-dimensional diffusion setting for a time-inconsistent stopping problem under non-exponential discounting. We show that the optimal value is semi-continuous with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Erhan Bayraktar , Zhenhua Wang , Zhou Zhou

Given the facts of the extensiveness of multi-material diffusion problems and the inability of the standard PINN(Physics-Informed Neural Networks) method for such problems, in this paper we present a novel PINN method that can accurately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Yanzhong Yao , Jiawei Guo , Tongxiang Gu

We consider a model convection-diffusion problem and present our recent numerical and analysis results regarding mixed finite element formulation and discretization in the singular perturbed case when the convection term dominates the…

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In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

We consider optimal stopping problems with finite-time horizon and state-dependent discounting. The underlying process is a one-dimensional linear diffusion and the gain function is time-homogeneous and difference of two convex functions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Tiziano De Angelis

The finite volume methods are frequently employed in the discretization of diffusion problems with interface. In this paper, we firstly present a vertex-centered MACH-like finite volume method for solving stationary diffusion problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Jie Peng , Shi Shu , Haiyuan Yu , Chunsheng Feng , Mingxian Kan , Ganghua Wang

In this work we propose a nonlinear stabilization technique for convection-diffusion-reaction and pure transport problems discretized with space-time isogeometric analysis. The stabilization is based on a graph-theoretic artificial…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Jesús Bonilla , Santiago Badia

This is the second part of study on the optimal convergence rate of the explicit Euler discretization in time for the convection-diffusion equations [Appl. Math. Lett. \textbf{131} (2022) 108048] which focuses on high-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Qifeng Zhang , Jiyuan Zhang , Zhi-zhong Sun