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We study risk-sensitive control of continuous time Markov chains taking values in discrete state space. We study both finite and infinite horizon problems. In the finite horizon problem we characterise the value function via HJB equation…
The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation (HJB) associated with the time inhomogeneous singular control problem is a parabolic partial differential equation, and the existence of a classical solution is usually difficult to prove. In this paper,…
Optimal control problem is typically solved by first finding the value function through Hamilton-Jacobi equation (HJE) and then taking the minimizer of the Hamiltonian to obtain the control. In this work, instead of focusing on the value…
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We prove a general theorem that the $L_{\rho}^2({\mathbb{R}^{d}};{\mathbb{R}^{1}})\otimes L_{\rho}^2({\mathbb{R}^{d}};{\mathbb{R}^{d}})$ valued solution of an infinite horizon backward doubly stochastic differential equation, if exists,…
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