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In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the stochastic Pontryagin maximum principle, for controlled equation with delay in the state and with control dependent noise, in the general case of controls $u…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

This paper is concerned with a unified treatment of linear quadratic control problem for stochastic Volterra integral equations (SVIEs), motivated by the various approaches and scattered results in the existing literature. A novel class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Jiayin Gong , Tianxiao Wang

We consider the stochastic control of a semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) of McKean-Vlasov type. Based on a recent novel approach to the Lions derivative for Banach space valued functions, we prove the Gateaux…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Johan Benedikt Spille , Wilhelm Stannat

Infinite horizon backward stochastic Volterra integral equations (BSVIEs for short) are investigated. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the adapted M-solution in a weighted $L^2$-space. Furthermore, we extend some important known…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Yushi Hamaguchi

The purpose of this paper is to establish first and second order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems of stochastic evolution equations with control and state constraints. The control acts both in the drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Hélène Frankowska , Qi Lü

We study a class of optimal control problems governed by nonlinear stochastic equations of monotone type under certain coercivity and linear growth conditions. We give first order necessary conditions of optimality. A stochastic Pontryagin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ioana Ciotir , Nicolas Forcadel , Piero Visconti , Hasnaa Zidani

A linear-quadratic optimal control problem for a forward stochastic Volterra integral equation (FSVIE, for short) is considered. Under the usual convexity conditions, open-loop optimal control exists, which can be characterized by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong , Chao Zhou

In this paper, we consider optimal control problems derived by stochastic systems with delay, where control domains are non-convex and the diffusion coefficients depend on control variables. By an estimate of the integral of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Qixia Zhang

The aim of this paper is to derive a maximum principle for a control problem governed by a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with locally monotone coefficients. In particular, necessary conditions for optimality for this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Edson Alberto Coayla-Teran

In this article, we analyse the existence of an optimal feedback controller of stochastic optimal control problems governed by SDEs which have the control in the diffusion part. To this end, we consider the underlying Fokker-Planck equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Luca Di Persio , Peter Kuchling

For a class of stochastic delay evolution equations driven by cylindrical $Q$-Wiener process, we study the Pontryagin's maximum principle for the stochastic recursive optimal control problem. The delays are given as moving averages with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Guomin Liu , Jian Song , Meng Wang

An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation with the cost functional determined by a backward stochastic Volterra integral equation (BSVIE, for short). This kind of cost functional can cover the general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We study an optimal control problem for the stochastic wave equation driven by affine multiplicative noise, formulated as a stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ) problem. By applying a stochastic Pontryagin's maximum principle, we characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Abhishek Chaudhary

This work studies a class of singular Volterra integral equations that are (controlled) and can be applied to memory-related problems.For optimum controls, we prove a second-order Pontryagin type maximal principle.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Jasarat J. Gasimov , Nazim I. Mahmudov

We study a stochastic control problem for nonlinear systems governed by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift. The drift coefficient is assumed to decompose as $b(t,x,a)=b_1(t,x)+b_2(x)b_3(t,a)$, where $b_1$ is bounded and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Antoine Marie Bogso , Rhoss Likibi Pellat , Wilfried Kuissi Kamdem , Olivier Menoukeu Pamen

For a class of path-dependent stochastic evolution equations driven by cylindrical $Q$-Wiener process, we study the Pontryagin's maximum principle for the stochastic recursive optimal control problem. In this infinite-dimensional control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Guomin Liu , Jian Song , Meng Wang

This paper is concerned with necessary and sufficient conditions for near-optimal singular stochastic controls for systems driven by a nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short). The proof of our result is based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Mokhtar Hafayed , Syed Abbas , Petr Veverka

We consider the control of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) via deterministic controls. In the case of multiplicative noise, existence of optimal controls and necessary conditions for optimality are derived. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

This paper studies the optimal control problems of stochastic evolution equations with infinite delay of general functional type. By introducing a non-anticipative path derivative and its infinite-window dual operator, we derive the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Guanwei Cheng

A general maximum principle is proved for optimal controls of abstract semilinear stochastic evolution equations. The control variable, as well as linear unbounded operators, acts in both drift and diffusion terms, and the control set need…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng