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Optimal processes in stochastic thermodynamics are a frontier for understanding the control and design of non-equilibrium systems, with broad practical applications in biology, chemistry, and nanoscale/mesoscale systems. Optimal mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-15 Atul Tanaji Mohite , Heiko Rieger

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 solve the problem of optimal stopping of a Brownian motion subject to the constraint that the stopping time's distribution is a given measure consisting of finitely-many atoms. In particular, we show that this problem can be converted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Christopher W. Miller

In this note, we give the stochastic maximum principle for optimal control of stochastic PDEs in the general case (when the control domain need not be convex and the diffusion coefficient can contain a control variable).

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Marco Fuhrman , Ying Hu , Gianmario Tessitore

We study methods for solving stochastic control problems of systems of forward-backward mean-field equations with delay, in finite or infinite horizon. Necessary and sufficient maximum principles under partial information are given. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Nacira Agram , Elin Engen Rose

We establish a variety of results extending the well-known Pontryagin maximum principle of optimal control to discrete-time optimal control problems posed on smooth manifolds. These results are organized around a new theorem on critical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Robert Kipka , Rohit Gupta

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for fully coupled forward-backward stochastic control systems with a nonempty control domain. For our problem, the first-order and second-order variational equations are fully coupled linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

We provide an overview on how to use the measurable selection techniques to derive the dynamic programming principle for a general stochastic optimal control/stopping problem. By considering its martingale problem formulation on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Nicole El Karoui , Xiaolu Tan

We obtain the first probabilistic proof of continuous differentiability of time-dependent optimal boundaries in optimal stopping problems. The underlying stochastic dynamics is a one-dimensional, time-inhomogeneous diffusion. The gain…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Tiziano De Angelis , Damien Lamberton

We consider the control problem of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in multidimensional domains introduced in \cite{ocpc} restricted to noise terms defined by Q-Wiener processes. Using a stochastic maximum principle, we derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic optimal control problems with risk constraints that are expressed as bounded probabilities of failure for particular initial states. We present here a martingale approach that diffuses a risk…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Vu Anh Huynh , Leonid Kogan , Emilio Frazzoli

In this paper we consider a method of solving optimal stopping problems in discrete and continuous time based on their dual representation. A novel and generic simulation-based optimization algorithm not involving nested simulations is…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Denis Belomestny

In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the stochastic Pontryagin maximum principle, for controlled equations with pointwise delay in the state and with control dependent noise, in the general case of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

In this paper, infinite horizon stochastic difference equations and backward stochastic difference equations with fractional noises are studied. The main difficulty comes from fractional noises on infinite horizon. Motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Yuecai Han , Yuhang Li

We characterize the optimal control for a class of singular stochastic control problems as the unique solution to a related Skorokhod reflection problem. The considered optimization problems concern the minimization of a discounted cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari

In this paper, we study the maximum principle for stochastic optimal control problems of forward-backward stochastic difference systems (FBS{\Delta}Ss). Two types of FBS{\Delta}Ss are investigated. The first one is described by a partially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Shaolin Ji , Haodong Liu

We present a solution to an optimal stopping problem for a process with a wide-class of novel dynamics. The dynamics model the support/resistance line concept from financial technical analysis.

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-03-30 Jun Maeda , Saul D. Jacka

We present a Pontryagin maximum principle for discrete time optimal control problems with (a) pointwise constraints on the control actions and the states, (b) frequency constraints on the control and the state trajectories, and (c)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Shruti Kotpalliwar , Pradyumna Paruchuri , Debasish Chatterjee , Ravi Banavar

This paper is concerned with stochastic impulse control problems in which the running cost changes depending on the impulse control. Because of such a dependence, it brings several difficulties when the usual dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yuchen Cao , Jiongmin Yong

The goal of this paper is to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems numerically, in which the state process is governed by an It\^o type stochastic differential equation with control process entering both in the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Richard Archibald , Feng Bao , Jiongmin Yong , Tao Zhou