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We consider optimal stopping problems, in which a sequence of independent random variables is drawn from a known continuous density. The objective of such problems is to find a procedure which maximizes the expected reward; this is often…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Hugh Entwistle , Christopher Lustri , Georgy Sofronov

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

This paper focuses on finding approximate solutions to stochastic optimal control problems with control domains being not necessarily convex, where the state trajectory is subject to controlled stochastic differential equations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Shaolin Ji , Rundong Xu

A steady-state convection-diffusion problem with a small diffusion of order $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon)$ is considered in a thin three-dimensional graph-like junction consisting of thin cylinders connected through a domain (node) of diameter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Taras A. Mel'nyk , Arsen V. Klevtsovskiy

Consider the problem of a central bank that wants to manage the exchange rate between its domestic currency and a foreign one. The central bank can purchase and sell the foreign currency, and each intervention on the exchange market leads…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Giorgio Ferrari , Tiziano Vargiolu

Perturbation theory is a powerful tool in manipulating dynamical system. However, it is legal only for infinitesimal perturbations. We propose to dispose this problem by means of perturbation group, and find that the coupling constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chao-Zheng Zha

The paper is concerned with the boundary controllability of entropy weak solutions to hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. We prove a general result on the asymptotic stabilization of a system near a constant state. On the other hand,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alberto Bressan , Giuseppe Maria Coclite

We study a version of the stochastic control problem of minimizing the sum of running and controlling costs, where control opportunities are restricted to independent Poisson arrival times. Under a general setting driven by a general L\'evy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Kei Noba , Kazutoshi Yamazaki

Stochastic optimal control with unknown randomness distributions has been studied for a long time, encompassing robust control, distributionally robust control, and adaptive control. We propose a new episodic Bayesian approach that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Alexander Shapiro , Enlu Zhou , Yifan Lin , Yuhao Wang

We consider a mean-field control problem in which admissible controls are required to be adapted to the common noise filtration. The main objective is to show how the mean-field control problem can be approximates by time consistent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Bruno Bouchard , Xiaolu Tan

This paper investigates the optimal control problem for a class of parabolic equations where the diffusion coefficient is influenced by a control function acting nonlocally. Specifically, we consider the optimization of a cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Stefana-Lucia Anita , Luca Di Persio

The aim of this article is to study the asymptotic behaviour of some low-cost control problems. These problems motivate the study of H-convergence with weakly convergingdata. An improved lower bound for the limit of energy functionals…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-16 Rajesh Mahadevan , T. Muthukumar

This paper investigates a diffusion process in a narrow tubular domain with reflecting boundary conditions, where the geometry serves as a singular perturbation of an underlying graph in $\mathbb{R}^2$ or $\mathbb{R}^3$. The construction…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Wen-Tai Hsu

We study the convergence problem of mean-field control theory in the presence of state constraints and non-degenerate idiosyncratic noise. Our main result is the convergence of the value functions associated to stochastic control problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Samuel Daudin

The uniqueness of bounded weak solutions to strongly coupled parabolic equations in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is shown. The equations include cross-diffusion and drift terms and are coupled selfconsistently to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Xiuqing Chen , Ansgar Jüngel

We study the existence and long-time asymptotics of weak solutions to a system of two nonlinear drift-diffusion equations that has a gradient flow structure in the Wasserstein distance. The two equations are coupled through a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Lisa Beck , Daniel Matthes , Martina Zizza

In this article we consider the ergodic risk-sensitive control problem for a large class of multidimensional controlled diffusions on the whole space. We study the minimization and maximization problems under either a blanket stability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Somnath Pradhan

This papers shows the convergence of optimal control problems where the constraint function is discretised by a particle method. In particular, we investigate the viscous Burgers equation in the whole space $\mathbb R$ by using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Jan Marburger , Rene Pinnau

Motivated to understand the asymptotic behavior of periodically driven thermodynamic systems, we study the prototypical example of Brownian particle, overdamped and underdamped, in harmonic potentials subjected to periodic driving. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-12 Shakul Awasthi , Sreedhar B. Dutta

We study the asymptotic behavior of the maximum interpoint distance of random points in a $d$-dimensional set with a unique diameter and a smooth boundary at the poles. Instead of investigating only a fixed number of $n$ points as $n$ tends…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Michael Schrempp