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We propose a methodology to address two analysis problems concerning complex systems, namely bounding state functionals of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and verifying set avoidance of systems described by partial differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Giorgio Valmorbida , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We consider a finite or countable collection of one-dimensional Brownian particles whose dynamics at any point in time is determined by their rank in the entire particle system. Using Transportation Cost Inequalities for stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Soumik Pal , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

Given a L\'evy process $L$, we consider the so-called statistical Skorohod embedding problem of recovering the distribution of an independent random time $T$ based on i.i.d. sample from $L_{T}.$ Our approach is based on the genuine use of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-04 Denis Belomestny , John Schoenmakers

We introduce a system of Brownian particles, each absorbed upon hitting an associated moving boundary. The boundaries are determined by the conditional probabilities of the particles being absorbed before some final time horizon, given the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Philipp Jettkant , Andreas Sojmark

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the fractional p-Laplace equation with a polynomial drift of arbitrary order driven by superlinear transport noise. By the monotone argument, we first prove the existence…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Bixiang Wang

We consider long term average or `ergodic' optimal control poblems with a special structure: Control is exerted in all directions and the control costs are proportional to the square of the norm of the control field with respect to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Joris Bierkens , Vladimir Y. Chernyak , Michael Chertkov , Hilbert J. Kappen

We characterize the Schr\"odinger bridge problems by a family of Mckean-Vlasov stochastic control problems with no terminal time distribution constraint. In doing so, we use the theory of Hilbert space embeddings of probability measures and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Yumiharu Nakano

A leveraged exchange traded fund (LETF) is an exchange traded fund that uses financial derivatives to amplify the price changes of a basket of goods. In this paper, we consider the robust hedging of European options on a LETF, finding…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2017-02-24 Alexander M. G. Cox , Sam M. Kinsley

The complete physical understanding of the optimization of the thermodynamic work still is an important open problem in stochastic thermodynamics. We address this issue using the Hamiltonian approach of linear response theory in finite time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-18 Pierre Nazé , Sebastian Deffner , Marcus V. S. Bonança

We study the three-dimensional stochastic electron magnetohydrodynamics (EMHD) system with fractional dissipation on the torus, driven by Stratonovich transport noise acting through divergence-free first-order operators. The noise generates…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ruimeng Hu , Qirui Peng , Xu Yang

We study continuous finite element dicretizations for one dimensional hyperbolic partial differential equations. The main contribution of the paper is to provide a fully discrete spectral analysis, which is used to suggest optimal values of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Sixtine Michel , Davide Torlo , Mario Ricchiuto , Rémi Abgrall

In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the Pontryagin maximum principle, for the optimal control problem of a class of infinite dimensional evolution equations with delay in the state. In the cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero , Carlo Orrieri

In this article we propose a new explicit Euler-type approximation method for stochastic differential equations (SDEs). In this method, Brownian increments in the recursion of the Euler method are replaced by suitable bounded functions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Martin Hutzenthaler , Kai Kisker

We derive moment estimates and a strong limit theorem for space inverses of stochastic flows generated by jump SDEs with adapted coefficients in weighted H\"older norms using the Sobolev embedding theorem and the change of variable formula.…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-25 James-Michael Leahy , Remigijus Mikulevicius

In this paper we make a survey on the so called randomization method, a recent methodology to study stochastic optimization problems. It allows to represent the value function of an optimal control problem by a suitable backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Marco Fuhrman

This work originates from a heart's images tracking which is to generate an apparent continuous motion, observable through intensity variation from one starting image to an ending one both supposed segmented. Given two images p0 and p1, we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Olivier Besson , Martine Picq , Jérôme Pousin

Optimal transport (OT) and Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) problems have emerged as powerful frameworks for transferring probability distributions with minimal cost. However, existing approaches typically focus on endpoint matching while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Xu Duan , Dongmei Chen

We consider a non-Markovian optimal stopping problem on finite horizon. We prove that the value process can be represented by means of a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE), defined on an enlarged probability space, containing…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham , Federica Zeni

In the recent article [Hairer, M., Hutzenthaler, M., Jentzen, A., Loss of regularity for Kolmogorov equations, Ann. Probab. 43 (2015), no. 2, 468--527] it has been shown that there exist stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Arnulf Jentzen , Thomas Müller-Gronbach , Larisa Yaroslavtseva

In this paper we investigate the numerical solution of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) for a wider class of stochastic equations. We focus on non-diagonal colored noise instead of the usual space-time white noise. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Dirk Blömker , Minoo Kamrani