English
Related papers

Related papers: A Framework for the Dynamic Programming Principle …

200 papers

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for a partially observed diffusion. By using the control randomization method in [4], we prove a corresponding randomized dynamic programming principle (DPP) for the value function, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Elena Bandini , Andrea Cosso , Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham

We provide a dynamic programming principle for stochastic optimal control problems with expectation constraints. A weak formulation, using test functions and a probabilistic relaxation of the constraint, avoids restrictions related to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Bruno Bouchard , Marcel Nutz

This paper is concerned with the Dynamic Programming Principle (DPP in short) with SDEs on Riemannian manifolds. Moreover, through the DPP, we conclude that the cost function is the unique viscosity solution to the related PDEs on…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-01-19 Xuehong Zhu

In this work we study the stochastic recursive control problem, in which the aggregator (or called generator) of the backward stochastic differential equation describing the running cost is continuous but not necessarily Lipschitz with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Jiangyan Pu , Qi Zhang

We consider a Bolza-type optimal control problem for a dynamical system described by a fractional differential equation with the Caputo derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0, 1)$. The value of this problem is introduced as a functional in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

Since Peng (1993) established a local maximum principle for a general stochastic control problem governed by forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), the corresponding partial differential equation (PDE) characterization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yuhong Xu , Shuzhen Yang

We develop dynamical programming methods for the purpose of optimal control of quantum states with convex constraints and concave cost and bequest functions of the quantum state. We consider both open loop and feedback control schemes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-06 Viacheslav P. Belavkin , Antonio Negretti , Klaus Molmer

In this paper, we study the relationship between maximum principle (MP) and dynamic programming principle (DPP) for stochastic recursive optimal control problem driven by $G$-Brownian motion. Under the smooth assumption for the value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Xiaojuan Li

We provide a unified strategy to show that solutions of dynamic programming principles associated to the $p$-Laplacian converge to the solution of the corresponding Dirichlet problem. Our approach includes all previously known cases for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Félix del Teso , Juan J. Manfredi , Mikko Parviainen

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the value functional is defined by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) under $\tilde{G}$-expectation. Under standard assumptions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaojuan Li

This paper studies the dynamic programming principle using the measurable selection method for stochastic control of continuous processes. The novelty of this work is to incorporate intermediate expectation constraints on the canonical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Yuk-Loong Chow , Xiang Yu , Chao Zhou

We consider a stochastic differential game in the context of forward-backward stochastic differential equations, where one player implements an impulse control while the opponent controls the system continuously. Utilizing the notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Magnus Perninge

We study the McKean-Vlasov optimal control problem with common noise in various formulations, namely the strong and weak formulation, as well as the Markovian and non-Markovian formulations, and allowing for the law of the control process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Mao Fabrice Djete , Dylan Possamaï , Xiaolu Tan

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

We give a brief presentation of the capacity theory and show how it derives naturally a measurable selection theorem following the approach of Dellacherie (1972). Then we present the classical method to prove the dynamic programming of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Nicole El Karoui , Xiaolu Tan

In this paper, we study the relationship between maximum principle (MP) and dynamic programming principle (DPP) for forward-backward control system under consistent convex expectation dominated by G-expectation. Under the smooth assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Xiaojuan Li , Mingshang Hu

The purpose of this article is to study a stochastic control problem on a junction, with control at the junction point. The problem of control is formulated in the weak sense, using a relaxed control, namely a control which takes values in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Isaac Ohavi

This paper aims to explore the relationship between maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for stochastic recursive control problem with random coefficients. Under certain regular conditions for the coefficients, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Yuchao Dong , Qingxin Meng , Qi Zhang

We analyze a stochastic optimal control problem, where the state process follows a McKean-Vlasov dynamics and the diffusion coefficient can be degenerate. We prove that its value function V admits a nonlinear Feynman-Kac representation in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Erhan Bayraktar , Andrea Cosso , Huyên Pham

We study a dynamic stochastic control problem subject to Knightian uncertainty with multi-objective (vector-valued) criteria. Assuming the preferences across expected multi-loss vectors are represented by a given, yet general, preorder, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Igor Cialenco , Gabriela Kováčová