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This paper studies duality and optimality conditions for general convex stochastic optimization problems. The main result gives sufficient conditions for the absence of a duality gap and the existence of dual solutions in a locally convex…

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The purpose of this paper is to establish the first and second order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls in infinite dimensions. The control system is governed by a stochastic evolution equation, in which both drift and…

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In ergodic singular stochastic control problems, a decision-maker can instantaneously adjust the evolution of a state variable using a control of bounded variation, with the goal of minimizing a long-term average cost functional. The cost…

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In this paper we study the stochastic control problem of partially observed (multi-dimensional) stochastic system driven by both Brownian motions and fractional Brownian motions. In the absence of the powerful tool of Girsanov…

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We study the optimal control of a steady-state dead oil isotherm problem. The problem is described by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations resulting from the traditional modelling of oil engineering within the framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-03 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper, an open problem is solved, for the stochastic optimal control problem with delay where the control domain is nonconvex and the diffusion term contains both control and its delayed term. Inspired by previous results by \O…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Weijun Meng , Jingtao Shi

In this paper we consider some optimal control problems governed by elliptic partial differential equations. The solution is the state variable, while the control variable is, depending on the case, the coefficient of the PDE, the…

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We consider the stochastic optimal control problem for the dynamical system of the stochastic differential equation driven by a local martingale with a spatial parameter. Assuming the convexity of the control domain, we obtain the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Jian Song , Meng Wang

Duality between estimation and optimal control is a problem of rich historical significance. The first duality principle appears in the seminal paper of Kalman-Bucy, where the problem of minimum variance estimation is shown to be dual to a…

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A general maximum principle (necessary and sufficient conditions) for an optimal control problem governed by a stochastic differential equation driven by an infinite dimensional martingale is established. The solution of this equation takes…

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We consider optimal control of the scalar wave equation where the control enters as a coefficient in the principal part. Adding a total variation penalty allows showing existence of optimal controls, which requires continuity results for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Christian Clason , Karl Kunisch , Philip Trautmann

In the present paper we deal with an optimal control problem related to a model in population dynamics; more precisely, the goal is to modify the behavior of a given density of individuals via another population of agents interacting with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Mattia Bongini , Giuseppe Buttazzo

We study singular stochastic control of a two dimensional stochastic differential equation, where the first component is linear with random and unbounded coefficients. We derive existence of an optimal relaxed control and necessary…

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The main contributions of this paper are three fold. First, our primary concern is to investigate a class of stochastic recursive delayed control problems which arise naturally with sound backgrounds but have not been well-studied yet. For…

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This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

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I development a Conjugate Gradient Method for solving a partial differential system with multiply controls. Some numerical results are depicted. Also, I present an explication of why the control over a partial differential equations system…

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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…

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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…

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This paper is concerned with a boundary control problem for the Cahn--Hilliard equation coupled with dynamic boundary conditions. In order to handle the control problem, we restrict our analysis to the case of regular potentials defined on…

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In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential system with a stopping time terminal cost functional. We establish the stochastic maximum principle for this new kind of an optimal control problem by…

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