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In this paper we study nonnegative, measure valued solutions of the initial value problem for one-dimensional drift-diffusion equations when the nonlinear diffusion is governed by an increasing $C^1$ function $\beta$ with $\lim_{r\to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 S. Fornaro , S. Lisini , G. Savare' , G. Toscani

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Akan Selim , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Preservation of the maximum principle is studied for the combination of the linear finite element method in space and the $\theta$-method in time for solving time dependent anisotropic diffusion problems. It is shown that the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Xianping Li , Weizhang Huang

We explicitly solve the optimal switching problem for one-dimensional diffusions by directly employing the dynamic programming principle and the excessive characterization of the value function. The shape of the value function and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-25 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami

Consider the classic infinite-horizon problem of stopping a one-dimensional diffusion to optimise between running and terminal rewards and suppose we are given a parametrised family of such problems. We provide a general theory of parameter…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Martin Klimmek

In this work, we explore a time-fractional diffusion equation of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with a stochastic diffusivity parameter. We focus on efficient estimation of the expected values (considered as an infinite dimensional integral on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Josef Dick , Hecong Gao , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

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…

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We prove the well--posedness of a dynamical perfect plasticity model under general assumptions on the stress constraint set and on the reference configuration. The problem is studied by combining both calculus of variations and hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Jean-François Babadjian , Vito Crismale

This paper investigates a singular stochastic control problem for a multi-dimensional regime-switching diffusion process confined in an unbounded domain. The objective is to maximize the total expected discounted rewards from exerting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Qingshuo Song , Chao Zhu

We investigate the optimal stopping problems involving the supremum of a diffusion. The starting point is the link between works of Peskir and Meilijson, which we describe in a unified manner. The description developped follows mainly the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jan Obloj

We examine initial-boundary value problems for diffusion equations with distributed order time-fractional derivatives. We prove existence and uniqueness results for the weak solution to these systems, together with its continuous dependency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Zhiyuan Li , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi

We study the numerical solution of nonlinear partially observed optimal stopping problems. The system state is taken to be a multi-dimensional diffusion and drives the drift of the observation process, which is another multi-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Mike Ludkovski

In this paper, some initial-boundary-value problems for the time-fractional diffusion equation are first considered in open bounded n-dimensional domains. In particular, the maximum principle well-known for the PDEs of elliptic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Yuri Luchko

We consider the reaction diffusion problem and present efficient ways to discretize and precondition in the singular perturbed case when the reaction term dominates the equation. Using the concepts of optimal test norm and saddle point…

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I consider a stochastic optimization problem for a time-changed Bessel process whose diffusion rate is constrained to be between two positive values $r_{1}<r_{2}$. The problem is to find an optimal adapted strategy for the choice of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Jeremy Thane Clark

This paper is concerned with a discounted stochastic optimal control problem for regime switching diffusion in an infinite horizon. First, as a preliminary with particular interests in its own right, the global well-posedness of infinite…

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For a model convection-diffusion problem, we address the presence of oscillatory discrete solutions, and study difficulties in recovering standard approximation results for its solution. We justify the presence of non-physical oscillations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Constantin Bacuta

In this research note we provide a variational basis for the optimal artificial diffusion method, which has been a cornerstone in developing many stabilized methods. The optimal artificial diffusion method produces exact nodal solutions…

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We show that, for any spatially discretized system of reaction-diffusion, the approximate solution given by the explicit Euler time-discretization scheme converges to the exact time-continuous solution, provided that diffusion coefficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Adrien Le Coënt , Laurent Fribourg

We obtain a probabilistic proof of the local Lipschitz continuity for the optimal stopping boundary of a class of problems with state space $[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$. To the best of our knowledge this is the only existing proof…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Tiziano De Angelis , Gabriele Stabile