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Motivated by parallels between mean field games and random matrix theory, we develop stochastic optimal control problems and viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the setting of non-commutative variables. Rather than real…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Wilfrid Gangbo , David Jekel , Kyeongsik Nam , Aaron Z. Palmer

A linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem is considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with constant coefficients in an infinite horizon. The stabilizability of the control system is studied followed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Jianhui Huang , Xun Li , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper we aim to find the stationary stochastic viscosity solutions of a parabolic type SPDEs through the infinite horizon backward doubly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs). For this, we study the existence, uniqueness and…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-17 Qi Zhang

We derive the explicit solutions to singular stochastic control problems of the monotone follower type with (a) an expected discounted criterion, (b) an expected ergodic criterion and (c) a pathwise ergodic criterion. These problems have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Gechun Liang , Zhesheng Liu , Mihail Zervos

This paper is concerned with optimal control of stochastic fully coupled forward-backward linear quadratic (FBLQ) problems with indefinite control weight costs. In order to obtain the state feedback representation of the optimal control, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

In this article we study the existence and uniqueness of solutions of stochastic continuity equation with irregular coefficients.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-06 David A. C. , Christian Olivera

We consider a mean-field control problem with linear dynamics and quadratic control. We apply the vanishing viscosity method: we add a (regularizing) heat diffusion with a small viscosity coefficient and let such coefficient go to zero. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Gennaro Ciampa , Francesco Rossi

The paper concerns boundary value problems for general nonautonomous first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems in a strip. We construct small global classical solutions, assuming that the right hand sides are small. In the case that all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Irina Kmit , Lutz Recke , Viktor Tkachenko

This work investigates the optimal control problem for reflected McKean-Vlasov SDEs and the viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman(HJB) equations on the Wasserstein space in terms of intrinsic derivative. It follows from the flow…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Jinghai Shao

Viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, local or non local, Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a super-quadratic growth in the gradient variable are proved to be H\"older continuous, with a modulus depending only on the growth of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer

Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

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

We solve explicitly a two-dimensional singular control problem of finite fuel type for infinite time horizon. The problem stems from the optimal liquidation of an asset position in a financial market with multiplicative and transient price…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Dirk Becherer , Todor Bilarev , Peter Frentrup

A fundamental open problem in the theory of the multidimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations is whether smooth solutions can develop singularities in finite time. For constant viscosity coefficients, recent remarkable results show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Lihui Liu , Shengguo Zhu

This paper investigates the stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem of Markov regime switching system. The representation of the cost functional for the stochastic LQ optimal control problem of Markov regime…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Xin Zhang , Xun Li

We consider multidimensional quadratic BSDEs with bounded and unbounded terminal conditions. We provide sufficient conditions which guarantee existence and uniqueness of solutions. In particular, these conditions are satisfied if the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Asgar Jamneshan , Michael Kupper , Peng Luo

This paper concerns the continuous time mean-variance portfolio selection problem with a special nonlinear wealth equation. This nonlinear wealth equation has a nonsmooth coefficient and the dual method developed in [6] does not work. We…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-20 Shaolin Ji , Xiaomin Shi

We study a class of stochastic control problems where a cost of the form \begin{equation}\mathbb{E}\int_{[0,\infty)}e^{-\beta s}[\ell(X_s) ds+h(Y^{\circ}_s) d|Y|_s]\end{equation} is to be minimized over control processes $Y$ whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rami Atar , Amarjit Budhiraja

This paper studies the stochastic optimal control of jump-diffusion processes and the associated fully nonlinear backward stochastic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (BSHJB) equations. We establish the dynamic programming principle (DPP) via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Dunxiang Liang , Qingxin Meng

This work concerns the optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov SDEs. In order to characterize the value function, we develop the viscosity solution theory for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on the Wasserstein space using…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Jinghai Shao