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In this paper, we study a kind of optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs for short) of McKean--Vlasov type via the dynamic programming principle (DPP for short) motivated by studying the…

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This paper presents a novel approach to numerically solve stochastic differential games for nonlinear systems. The proposed approach relies on the nonlinear Feynman-Kac theorem that establishes a connection between parabolic deterministic…

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We construct an aggregated version of the value processes associated with stochastic control problems, where the criterion to optimise is given by solutions to semi-martingale backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). The results…

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One of the core problems in mean-field control and mean-field games is to solve the corresponding McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV-FBSDEs). Most existing methods are tailored to special cases in which the…

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This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) control problem with a recursive cost functional. It involves BSDEs in $L^1$ whose well-posedness is a subtle issue. A suitable framework has been adopted so that…

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The optimal control problem for discrete-time systems with colored multiplicative noise is discussed in this paper. The problem will be more difficult to deal with than the case of white noise due to the correlation of the adjoining state.…

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