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In the present work we employ, for the first time, backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) to study the optimal control of semi-Markov processes on finite horizon, with general state and action spaces. More precisely, we prove…
This paper introduces a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), whose coefficients not only depend on the value of its solutions of the present but also the past and the future. For a sufficiently small time delay or a…
In this paper we discuss new types of differential equations which we call anticipated backward stochastic differential equations (anticipated BSDEs). In these equations the generator includes not only the values of solutions of the present…
We propose a new numerical scheme for Backward Stochastic Differential Equations based on branching processes. We approximate an arbitrary (Lipschitz) driver by local polynomials and then use a Picard iteration scheme. Each step of the…
This paper shows that penalized backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE), which is often used to approximate and solve the corresponding reflected BSDE, admits both optimal stopping representation and optimal control representation.…
In this paper, we study a multidimensional backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with an additional rough drift (rough BSDE), and give the existence and uniqueness of the adapted solution, either when the terminal value and the…
We consider an Ito stochastic differential equation with delay, driven by brownian motion, whose solution, by an appropriate reformulation, defines a Markov process $X$ with values in a space of continuous functions $\mathbf C$, with…
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We address a general optimal switching problem over finite horizon for a stochastic system described by a differential equation driven by Brownian motion. The main novelty is the fact that we allow for infinitely many modes (or regimes,…
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In this paper, we study an optimal control problem of linear backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with quadratic cost functional under partial information. This problem is solved completely and explicitly by using a stochastic…
We study backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) for time-changed L\'evy noises when the time-change is independent of the L\'evy process. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution and we obtain an explicit formula for…
We consider some certain nonlinear perturbations of the stochastic linear-quadratic optimization problems and study the connections between their solutions and the corresponding Markovian backward stochastic diferential equations (BSDEs).…
We study an optimal control problem on infinite horizon for a controlled stochastic differential equation driven by Brownian motion, with a discounted reward functional. The equation may have memory or delay effects in the coefficients,…
This paper studies a class of non$-$Markovian singular stochastic control problems, for which we provide a novel probabilistic representation. The solution of such control problem is proved to identify with the solution of a $Z-$constrained…
In this article we study the existence and the uniqueness of a solution for reflected backward stochastic differential equations in the case when the generator is logarithmic growth in the $z$-variable $(|z|\sqrt{|\ln(|z|)|})$, the terminal…
A Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (BSDE) with a Peano-type generator, is known to have infinitely many solutions when the terminal value is vanishing, and is shown to have possibly multiple solutions even when the terminal value…
This paper is concerned with a kind of linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with partial information. The cost functional includes cross terms between the state and control, and…