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We consider covariance control problems for nonlinear stochastic systems. Our objective is to find an optimal control strategy to steer the state from an initial distribution to a terminal one with specified mean and covariance. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Zeji Yi , Zhefeng Cao , Evangelos Theodorou , Yongxin Chen

We provide an existence and uniqueness result for mild solutions to rough partial differential equations in the framework of the semigroup approach. Applications to stochastic partial differential equations driven by infinite dimensional…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Stefan Tappe

This paper is concerned with developing and analyzing two novel implicit temporal discretization methods for the stochastic semilinear wave equations with multiplicative noise. The proposed methods are natural extensions of well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Liet Vo

We consider a broad class of dynamic programming (DP) problems that involve a partially linear structure and some positivity properties in their system equation and cost function. We address deterministic and stochastic problems, possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yuchao Li , Dimitri Bertsekas

This paper investigates a model-free solution to the stochastic linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problem for linear discrete-time systems with both multiplicative and additive noises. We formulate the stochastic LQR problem as a nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Jing Guo , Xiushan Jiang , Weihai Zhang

In this addendum we provide an existence and uniqueness result for mild solutions to semilinear stochastic partial differential equations driven by Wiener processes and Poisson random measures in the framework of the semigroup approach with…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Stefan Tappe

A discretization of an optimal control problem of a stochastic parabolic equation driven by multiplicative noise is analyzed. The state equation is discretized by the continuous piecewise linear element method in space and by the backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Binjie Li

The aim of this paper is to address optimality of stochastic control strategies via dynamic programming subject to total variation distance ambiguity on the conditional distribution of the controlled process. We formulate the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Ioannis Tzortzis , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous

We prove the well posedness: global existence, uniqueness and regularity of the solutions, of a class of d-dimensional fractional stochastic active scalar equations. This class includes the stochastic, dD-quasi-geostrophic equation, $ d\geq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-06 Latifa Debbi

In this paper we present a dynamic programing approach to stochastic optimal control problems with dynamic, time-consistent risk constraints. Constrained stochastic optimal control problems, which naturally arise when one has to consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Yin-Lam Chow , Marco Pavone

We consider controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with measurable coefficients, a uniformly elliptic diffusion coefficient and an $L_d$-drift. No space-regularity will be assumed for the coefficients. In this framework we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-19 David Criens

The objectives and contributions of this paper are mathematical and numerical analyses of a stochastic control problem of bounded population dynamics under ambiguity, an important but not well-studied problem, focusing on the optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-06 H. Yoshioka , M. Tsujimura

This article introduces a novel distributionally robust model predictive control (DRMPC) algorithm for a specific class of controlled dynamical systems where the disturbance multiplies the state and control variables. These classes of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Souvik Das , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ashwin Aravind , Debasish Chatterjee

Existence and uniqueness of mild solutions to a class of semilinear stochastic evolution equations with additive noise is proved. The linear part of the drift term is the generator of a compact semigroup of contractions, while the nonlinear…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Carlo Marinelli

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Karl Kunisch , Hannes Meinlschmidt

We consider a stochastic control problem with the assumption that the system is controlled until the state process breaks the fixed barrier. Assuming some general conditions, it is proved that the resulting Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Dariusz Zawisza

In the semigroup approach to stochastic evolution equations, the fundamental issue of uniqueness of mild solutions is often "reduced" to the much easier problem of proving uniqueness for strong solutions. This reduction is usually carried…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-01 Carlo Marinelli , Michael Röckner

We present sufficient conditions for exact controllability of a semilinear infinite dimensional dynamical system. The system mild solution is formed by a noncompact semigroup and a nonlinear disturbance that does not need to be Lipschitz…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Radoslaw Zawiski

Mean field optimal control problems are a class of optimization problems that arise from optimal control when applied to the many body setting. In the noisy case one has a set of controllable stochastic processes and a cost function that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Pierfrancesco Urbani

We provide an overview on how to use the measurable selection techniques to derive the dynamic programming principle for a general stochastic optimal control/stopping problem. By considering its martingale problem formulation on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Nicole El Karoui , Xiaolu Tan