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Motivated by a control problem of a certain queueing network we consider a control problem where the dynamics is constrained in the nonnegative orthant $\mathbb{R}_+$ of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space and controlled by the reflections…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Anup Biswas , Hitoshi Ishii , Subhamay Saha , Lin Wang

We consider a kind of stochastic exit time optimal control problems, in which the cost function is defined through a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We study the regularity of the value function for such a control…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Rainer Buckdahn , Tianyang Nie

Existence and uniqueness are proved for Mckean-Vlasov type distribution dependent SDEs with singular drifts satisfying an integrability condition in space variable and the Lipschitz condition in distribution variable with respect to $W_0$…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Xing Huang , Feng-Yu Wang

In this article, we prove the existence of weak solutions as well as the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for McKean-Vlasov multivalued stochastic differential equations with oblique subgradients (MVMSDEswOS, for short) by means…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Hao Wu , Junhao Hu , Chenggui Yuan

This paper investigates a singular stochastic control problem for a multi-dimensional regime-switching diffusion process confined in an unbounded domain. The objective is to maximize the total expected discounted rewards from exerting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Qingshuo Song , Chao Zhu

We consider Mc Kean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (MVSDEs), which are SDEs where the drift and diffusion coefficients depend not only on the state of the unknown process but also on its probability distribution. This type of SDEs…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Khaled Bahlali , Mohamed Amine Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

In this short note we formulate a infinite-horizon stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusions of Ito-Levy type as a LP problem in a measure space, and prove that the optimal value functions of both problems coincide. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Rafael Serrano

Motivated by several applications, including neuronal models, we consider the McKean-Vlasov limit for mean-field systems of interacting diffusions with simultaneous jumps. We prove propagation of chaos via a coupling technique that involves…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Luisa Andreis , Paolo Dai Pra , Markus Fischer

This paper investigates the optimal control problems for the finite-horizon continuous-time Markov decision processes with delay-dependent control policies. We develop compactification methods in decision processes, and show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Zhong-Wei Liao , Jinghai Shao

The work concerns a type of backward multivalued McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations. First, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for backward multivalued McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations. Then, it…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Jun Gong , Huijie Qiao

Solving Fredholm equations of the first kind is crucial in many areas of the applied sciences. In this work we adopt a probabilistic and variational point of view by considering a minimization problem in the space of probability measures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Francesca R. Crucinio , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet , Adam M. Johansen

A zero-sum differential game with controlled jump-diffusion driven state is considered, and studied using a combination of dynamic programming and viscosity solution techniques. We prove, under certain conditions, that the value of the game…

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This paper studies Hamilton-Jacobi equations of evolution type defined in a general metric space. We give a notion of a solution through optimal principles and establish a unique existence theorem of the solution for initial value problems.…

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In this article, we propose a general framework for the study of differential inclusions in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. Based on earlier geometric insights on the structure of continuity equations, we define solutions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

We study the optimal control of mean-field systems with heterogeneous and asymmetric interactions. This leads to considering a family of controlled Brownian diffusion processes with dynamics depending on the whole collection of marginal…

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In this paper we investigate a kind of optimal control problem of coupled forward-backward stochastic system with jumps whose cost functional is defined through a coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation with Brownian…

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We consider a nonlinear degenerate convection-diffusion equation with inhomogeneous convection and prove that its entropy solutions in the sense of Kru\v{z}kov are obtained as the - a posteriori unique - limit points of the JKO variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Marco Di Francesco , Daniel Matthes

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for first order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent differential equations. We identify the value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Jianjun Zhou

This paper contains two contributions in the study of optimal transport on metric graphs. Firstly, we prove a Benamou-Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance, which establishes the equivalence of static and dynamical optimal transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Matthias Erbar , Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Delio Mugnolo

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional singular stochastic control problems. These can be thought of as spatial monotone follower problems and find applications in spatial models of production and climate transition. Let…

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