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Frequency non-selective time-selective multiple access channels in which transmitters can freely choose their power control policy are considered. The individual objective of the transmitters is to maximize their averaged energy-efficiency.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-22 François Mériaux , Maël Le Treust , Samson Lasaulce , Michel Kieffer

In this paper, we consider a general time-inconsistent optimal control problem for a non homogeneous linear system, in which its state evolves according to a stochastic differential equation with deterministic coefficients, when the noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Ishak Alia , Farid Chighoub , Ayesha Sohail

An advantageous feature of piecewise constant policy timestepping for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations is that different linear approximation schemes, and indeed different meshes, can be used for the resulting linear equations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-21 Christoph Reisinger , Peter Forsyth

In this brief paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the asymptotic exit rate of diffusion processes from an open connected bounded set pertaining to a multi-channel system with small random perturbations. Specifically, we establish a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Getachew K. Befekadu

This paper considers consumption and portfolio optimization problems with recursive preferences in both infinite and finite time regions. Specially, the financial market consists of a risk-free asset and a risky asset that follows a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Jian-hao Kang , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

We consider a dynamic portfolio optimization problem that incorporates predictable returns, instantaneous transaction costs, price impact, and stochastic volatility, extending the classical results of Garleanu and Pedersen (2013), which…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-24 Patrick Chan , Ronnie Sircar , Iosif Zimbidis

Environmental management optimizing a long-run objective is an ergodic control problem whose resolution can be achieved by solving an associated non-local Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation having an effective Hamiltonian. Focusing on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Hidekazu Yoshioka , Motoh Tsujimura , Yuta Yaegashi

A class of optimal control problems of hybrid nature governed by semilinear parabolic equations is considered. These problems involve the optimization of switching times at which the dynamics, the integral cost, and the bounds on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Sébastien Court , Karl Kunisch , Laurent Pfeiffer

We present an accelerated algorithm for the solution of static Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations related to optimal control problems. Our scheme is based on a classic policy iteration procedure, which is known to have superlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Dante Kalise

This paper addresses the challenge of time-inconsistent stochastic control within a continuous-time framework. Its primary focus lies in uncovering a probabilistic representation, specifically in the shape of a system of backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Dylan Possamaï , Mateo Rodriguez Polo

We study high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problems in which many agents cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. We consider both the full-information problem, in which each agent observes the states of all other agents,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Joe Jackson , Daniel Lacker

This paper considers linear-quadratic control of a non-linear dynamical system subject to arbitrary cost. I show that for this class of stochastic control problems the non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation can be transformed into a…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. J. Kappen

Using a recently introduced representation of the second order adjoint state as the solution of a function-valued backward stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE), we calculate the viscosity super- and subdifferential of the value…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

From the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for the value function we derive a non-linear partial differential equation for the optimal portfolio strategy (the dynamic control). The equation is general in the sense that it does not depend on…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-11-20 Mads Nielsen

In this paper we study a first extension of the theory of mild solutions for HJB equations in Hilbert spaces to the case when the domain is not the whole space. More precisely, we consider a half-space as domain, and a semilinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Alessandro Calvia , Gianluca Cappa , Fausto Gozzi , Enrico Priola

In this paper, we consider the functional It\^o calculus framework to find a path-dependent version of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for stochastic control problems that feature dynamics and running cost that depend on the path of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Yuri F. Saporito

In this paper, we study the optimal singular controls for stochastic recursive systems, in which the control has two components: the regular control, and the singular control. Under certain assumptions, we establish the dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Liangquan Zhang

We study a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) driven by a random measure or, equivalently, by a marked point process. Under appropriate assumptions we prove well-posedness and continuous dependence of the solution…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-24 Fulvia Confortola , Marco Fuhrman

In this paper, we focus on a class of time-inconsistent stochastic control problems, where the objective function includes the mean and several higher-order central moments of the terminal value of state. To tackle the time-inconsistency,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-08 Yike Wang , Jingzhen Liu , Alain Bensoussan , Ka-Fai Cedric Yiu , Jiaqin Wei

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection under stochastic volatility within a continuous time reinforcement learning framework with portfolio constraints. Exploration is modeled through entropy-regularized relaxed controls, where…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-27 Thai Nguyen , Pertiny Nkuize