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Optimizing the controls of quantum systems plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies. The time-varying noises in quantum systems and the widespread use of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles raise the need for high-quality quantum…

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Control of continuous time dynamics with multiplicative noise is a classic topic in stochastic optimal control. This work addresses the problem of designing infinite horizon optimal controls with stability guarantees for \textit{a single…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Kaivalya Bakshi , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Piyush Grover

This paper treats a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of Cahn-Hilliard type including chemotaxis. The evolution of the tumor fraction is governed by a variational inequality corresponding to a double obstacle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We study in this paper a class of constrained linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem formulations for the scalar-state stochastic system with multiplicative noise, which has various applications, especially in the financial risk…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Weipin Wu , Jianjun Gao , Duan Li , Yun Shi

We establish the existence of an optimal control for a general class of singular control problems with state constraints. The proof uses weak convergence arguments and a time rescaling technique. The existence of optimal controls for…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Amarjit Budhiraja , Kevin Ross

We consider a stochastic control problem which is composed of a controlled stochastic differential equation, and whose associated cost functional is defined through a controlled backward stochastic differential equation. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Rainer Buckdahn , Boubakeur Labed , Catherine Rainer , Lazhar Tamer

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for the interacting particle system. We obtain the stochastic maximum principle of the optimal control system by introducing a generalized backward stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Andrey A. Dorogovtsev , Yuecai Han , Kateryna Hlyniana , Yuhang Li

In this paper, we consider an optimal bilinear control problem for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with singular potentials. We show well-posedness of the problem and existence of an optimal control. In addition, the first order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Binhua Feng , Dun Zhao , Pengyu Chen

In this paper, we describe a constrained Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for the optimal control of nonholonomic mechanical systems. In particular, we aim to minimize a cost functional, given initial and final conditions where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Rohit Gupta , David Martin de Diego

This paper investigates the robust optimal control of sampled-data stochastic systems with multiplicative noise and distributional ambiguity. We consider a class of discrete-time optimal control problems where the controller \emph{jointly}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Chung-Han Hsieh

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

We obtain a probabilistic solution to linear-quadratic optimal control problems with state constraints. Given a closed set $\mathcal{D}\subseteq [0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^d$, a diffusion $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ must be linearly controlled in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Tiziano De Angelis , Erik Ekström

We consider a singular stochastic control problem, which is called the Monotone Follower Stochastic Control Problem and give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a local-time type optimal control. To establish this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami

This paper is concerned with the optimal control of hysteresis-reaction-diffusion systems. We study a control problem with two sorts of controls, namely distributed control functions, or controls which act on a part of the boundary of the…

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We consider a stochastic system whose uncontrolled state dynamics are modelled by a general one-dimensional It\^{o} diffusion. The control effort that can be applied to this system takes the form that is associated with the so-called…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-15 Andrew J. F. Jack , Timothy C. Johnson , Mihail Zervos

A distributed optimal control problem for a phase field system which physical context is that of tumor growth is discussed. The system we are going to take into account consists of a Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase variable (relative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Andrea Signori

In this paper, we study a distributed optimal control problem for a diffuse interface model for tumor growth. The model consists of a Cahn-Hilliard type equation for the phase field variable coupled to a reaction diffusion equation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Matthias Ebenbeck , Patrik Knopf

We investigate a control process described by a linear system of ordinary differential equations with a noise of special type acting to the control parameter. As the cost functional the probability of the final state vector to enter to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-05 I. P. Smirnov

We address an optimal control problem governed by a system coupling a Brinkman-type momentum equation for the velocity field with a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase variable, incorporating curvature effects in the free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

In this paper we deal with a doubly nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard system, where both an internal constraint on the time derivative of the concentration and a potential for the concentration are introduced. The definition of the chemical potential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Elena Bonetti , Pierluigi Colli , Luca Scarpa , Giuseppe Tomassetti