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The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is strongly utilized in engineering, biology and finance. In this paper, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci

This paper deals with a family of stochastic control problems in Hilbert spaces which arises in typical applications (such as boundary control and control of delay equations with delay in the control) and for which is difficult to apply the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Federica Masiero , Fausto Gozzi

We consider optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equations, where the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We study the relaxed model, in which admissible controls are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Khaled Bahlali , Meriem Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

Optimal control of heterogeneous mean-field stochastic differential equations with common noise has not been addressed in the literature. In this work, we initiate the study of such models. We formulate the problem within a linear-quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Filippo de Feo , Samy Mekkaoui

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Akan Selim , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We consider control-constrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems on evolving surfaces. In order to formulate well-posed problems, we prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for the state equation, in the sense of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Morten Vierling

Stochastic Spatio-Temporal processes are prevalent across domains ranging from modeling of plasma to the turbulence in fluids to the wave function of quantum systems. This letter studies a measure-theoretic description of such systems by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 George I. Boutselis , Ethan N. Evans , Marcus A. Pereira , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andreas Sojmark , Zeng Zhang

We consider the variant of stochastic homogenization theory introduced in [X. Blanc, C. Le Bris and P.-L. Lions, C. R. Acad. Sci. Serie I 2006 and Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees 2007]. The equation under consideration is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Frederic Legoll , Florian Thomines

We study the homogenization of a stationary random maximal monotone operator on a probability space equipped with an ergodic dynamical system. The proof relies on Fitzpatrick's variational formulation of monotone relations, on Visintin's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Luca Lussardi , Stefano Marini , Marco Veneroni

We present qualitative and quantitative homogenization results for pathwise Hamilton-Jacobi equations with "rough" multiplicative driving signals. When there is only one such signal and the Hamiltonian is convex, we show that the equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Benjamin Seeger

In this paper, we adapt stochastic Perron's method to analyze a stochastic target problem with unbounded controls in a jump diffusion set-up. With this method, we construct a viscosity sub-solution and super-solution to the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiaqi Li

This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

The paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by a state equation in form of a generalized abstract operator differential equation involving a maximal monotone operator. The state equation is uniquely solvable, but the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Hannes Meinlschmidt , Christian Meyer , Stephan Walther

We study ergodic quadratic optimal stochastic control problems for an affine state equation with state and control dependent noise and with stochastic coefficients. We assume stationarity of the coefficients and a finite cost condition. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

We prove stochastic homogenization for a general class of coercive, nonconvex Hamilton-Jacobi equations in one space dimension. Some properties of the effective Hamiltonian arising in the nonconvex case are also discussed.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 S. N. Armstrong , H. V. Tran , Y. Yu

We present exponential error estimates and demonstrate an algebraic convergence rate for the homogenization of level-set convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations in i.i.d. random environments, the first quantitative homogenization results for these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Scott N. Armstrong , Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We investigate constrained optimal control problems for linear stochastic dynamical systems evolving in discrete time. We consider minimization of an expected value cost over a finite horizon. Hard constraints are introduced first, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Eugenio Cinquemani , Mayank Agarwal , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

Stochastic optimal control problems with constraints on the probability distribution of the final output are considered. Necessary conditions for optimality in the form of a coupled system of partial differential equations involving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Samuel Daudin

We consider linear hyperbolic balance law that describe gas flow. Stochastic influences are introduced by series of orthogonal functions. A deterministic stabilization concept, which makes deviations at steady states decay exponentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Stephan Gerster