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In this paper, we first establish the dynamic programming principle for stochastic optimal control problems defined on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. Subsequently, we derive the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dingqian Gao , Qi Lü

This paper presents Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) formulations for two classes of two-player zero-sum games: one with a maximum cost value over time, and one with a minimum cost value over time. In the zero-sum game setting, player A minimizes the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Donggun Lee , Claire J. Tomlin

We consider an optimal control problem for a linear stochastic integro-diffe\-rential equation with conic constraints on the phase variable and the control of singular-regular type. Our setting includes consumption-investment problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Dimitri De Vallière , Yuri Kabanov , Emmanuel Lépinette

This work proposes an optimal safe controller minimizing an infinite horizon cost functional subject to control barrier functions (CBFs) safety conditions. The constrained optimal control problem is reformulated as a minimization problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Hassan Almubarak , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Nader Sadegh

A Deterministic affine quadratic optimal control problem is considered. Due to the nature of the problem, optimal controls exist under some very mild conditions. Further, it is shown that under some assumptions, the value function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Yuanchang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

This paper presents an inverse optimality method to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for a class of nonlinear problems for which the cost is quadratic and the dynamics are affine in the input. The method is inverse optimal because…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Luis Rodrigues , Didier Henrion , Mehdi Abedinpour Fallah

This paper studies an optimal dividend problem for a company that aims to maximize the mean-variance (MV) objective of the accumulated discounted dividend payments up to its ruin time. The MV objective involves an integral form over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jingyi Cao , Dongchen Li , Virginia R. Young , Bin Zou

This paper is concerned with the maximum principle of stochastic optimal control problems, where the coefficients of the state equation and the cost functional are uncertain, and the system is generally under Markovian regime switching.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Tao Hao , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong

This paper investigates the optimal control problems for the finite-horizon continuous-time Markov decision processes with delay-dependent control policies. We develop compactification methods in decision processes, and show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Zhong-Wei Liao , Jinghai Shao

We study an agent's lifecycle portfolio choice problem with stochastic labor income, borrowing constraints and a finite retirement date. Similarly to arXiv:2002.00201, wages evolve in a path-dependent way, but the presence of a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Sara Biagini , Enrico Biffis , Fausto Gozzi , Margherita Zanella

In an equity market model with "Knightian" uncertainty regarding the relative risk and covariance structure of its assets, we characterize in several ways the highest return relative to the market that can be achieved using nonanticipative…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Daniel Fernholz , Ioannis Karatzas

We study linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems with bilinear state dependence for which the underlying stochastic differential equation (SDE) consists of slow and fast degrees of freedom. We show that, in the same way in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Omar Kebiri , Lara Neureither , Carsten Hartmann

The paper [12] examines a concept of equilibrium policies instead of optimal controls in stochastic optimization to analyze a mean-variance portfolio selection problem. We follow the same approach in order to investigate the Merton…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-23 I. Alia , F. Chighoub , N. Khelfallah , J. Vives

Time-consistency is an essential requirement in risk sensitive optimal control problems to make rational decisions. An optimization problem is time consistent if its solution policy does not depend on the time sequence of solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Yinlam Chow , Marco Pavone

We consider piecewise-deterministic optimal control problems in which the environment randomly switches among several deterministic modes, and the goal is to optimize the expected cost up to the termination while taking the likelihood of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Zhengdi Shen , Alexander Vladimirsky

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 consider discrete-time infinite horizon deterministic optimal control problems with nonnegative cost per stage, and a destination that is cost-free and absorbing. The classical linear-quadratic regulator problem is a special case. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Dimitri P. Bertsekas

The aim of this work is to develop a deep learning method for solving high-dimensional stochastic control problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation and physics-informed learning. Our approach is to parameterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Zhe Jiao , Wantao Jia , Weiqiu Zhu

We study the time-inconsistent linear quadratic optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations with potentially indefinite cost weighting matrices for both the state and the control variables. Our research…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Qi Lü , Bowen Ma

In this paper, we study the stochastic optimal control problem for control system with time-varying delay. The corresponding stochastic differential equation is a kind of stochastic differential delay equation. We prove the existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Yuhang Li , Yuecai Han