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This paper focuses on indefinite stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic (MF-LQ, for short) optimal control problems, which allow the weighting matrices for state and control in the cost functional to be indefinite. The solvability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Na Li , Xun Li , Zhiyong Yu

We establish existence of controlled Markov chain of mean-field type with unbounded jump intensities by means of a fixed point argument using the Wasserstein distance. Using a Markov chain entropic backward SDE approach, we further suggest…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Salah Eddine Choutri , Boualem Djehiche

We consider the stochastic control of a semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) of McKean-Vlasov type. Based on a recent novel approach to the Lions derivative for Banach space valued functions, we prove the Gateaux…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Johan Benedikt Spille , Wilhelm Stannat

In this paper, we concern with the ergodic linear-quadratic closed-loop optimal control problems, in which the state equation is the mean-field stochastic differential equation with periodic coefficients. We first study the asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Jiacheng Wu , Qi Zhang

In this paper we are interested in a new type of {\it mean-field}, non-Markovian stochastic control problems with partial observations. More precisely, we assume that the coefficients of the controlled dynamics depend not only on the paths…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Jin Ma

A Linear-quadratic optimal control problem is considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. By a variational method, the optimality system is derived, which turns out to be a linear mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-10 Jiongmin Yong

In this paper we consider long-run risk sensitive average cost impulse control applied to a continuous-time Feller-Markov process. Using the probabilistic approach, we show how to get a solution to a suitable continuous-time Bellman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Damian Jelito , Marcin Pitera , Łukasz Stettner

We investigate an optimal prevention and insurance problem in a general risk setting, where a representative agent is exposed to potential losses. The agent adopts a strategy that combines self-protection, aimed at reducing the frequency of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Claudia Ceci , Alessandra Cretarola

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Guangchen Wang , Wencan Wang , Zhiguo Yan

We introduce the concept of {\it mean-field optimal control} which is the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional optimal control problems with ODE constraints modeling multi-agent interactions to an infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we analyze mean-field game modulated by finite states markov chains. We first develop a sufficient stochastic maximum principle for the optimal control of a Markov-modulated stochastic differential equation (SDE) of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Yongming Tai

We study a class of mean-field stochastic differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in(1/2,1)$ and a related stochastic control problem. We derive a Pontryagin type maximum principle and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Rainer Buckdahn , Shuai Jing

We study an optimal control problem on infinite time horizon with semimartingale strategies, random coefficients and regime switching. The value function and the optimal strategy can be characterized in terms of three systems of backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Xinman Cheng , Guanxing Fu , Xiaonyu Xia

We formulate and solve an optimal control problem with cooperative, mean-field coupled linear-quadratic subsystems and additional risk-aware costs depending on the covariance and skew of the disturbance. This problem quantifies the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Dhairya Patel , Margaret Chapman

We study a family of McKean-Vlasov (mean-field) type ergodic optimal control problems with linear control, and quadratic dependence on control of the cost function. For this class of problems we establish existence and uniqueness of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Sergio Albeverio , Francesco C. De Vecchi , Andrea Romano , Stefania Ugolini

We consider an infinite horizon discounted optimal control problem for piecewise deterministic Markov processes, where a piecewise open-loop control acts continuously on the jump dynamics and on the deterministic flow. For this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Elena Bandini

This paper is concerned with a mean-field linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with deterministic coefficients. It is shown that convexity of the cost functional is necessary for the finiteness of the mean-field LQ…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Jingrui Sun

This paper investigates a class of unified stochastic linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) social optima problems involving a large number of weakly-coupled interactive agents under a {generalized} setting. For each individual agent, the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Zhenghong Qiu , Jianhui Huang , Tinghan Xie

In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov stochastic partial differential equations, in which the coefficients depend on the law of the state process. For systems with nonconvex control sets, we establish a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Liangying Chen , Wilhelm Stannat

The finite horizon $H_2/H_\infty$ control problem of mean-field type for discrete-time systems is considered in this paper. Firstly, we derive a mean-field stochastic bounded real lemma (SBRL). Secondly, a sufficient condition for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Zhang Weihai , Ma Limin