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This paper studies finite-time optimal consumption-investment problems with power, logarithmic and exponential utilities, in a regime switching market with random coefficients, subject to coupled constraints on the consumption and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

We introduce a new type of reflected backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) for which the reflection constraint is imposed on its main solution component, denoted as $Y$ by convention, but in terms of its conditional expectation…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang , Wenqiang Li

This paper studies a system of $m$ variational inequalities with interconnected obstacles in infinite horizon associated to optimal multi-modes switching problems. Our main result is the existence and uniqueness of a continuous solution in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Brahim El Asri , Imade Fakhouri , Nacer Ourkiya

We establish the existence of both optimal relaxed controls and strict optimal controls for systems driven by Reflected Stochastic Differential Equations RSDEs. Our approach is based on weak convergence techniques for the associated RSDEs…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ayoub Laayoun , Badr Missaoui

This work addresses a switching control problem under which the cost associated with the changes of regimes is allowed to have discontinuities in time. Our main contribution is to show several characterizations of the optimal cost function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Said Hamadène , Héctor Jasso-Fuentes , Yamid A. Osorio-Agudelo

We study an optimal control problem on infinite time horizon with semimartingale strategies, random coefficients and regime switching. The value function and the optimal strategy can be characterized in terms of three systems of backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Xinman Cheng , Guanxing Fu , Xiaonyu Xia

In this paper, we study reflected backward stochastic difference equations (RBSDEs for short) with finitely many states in discrete time. The general existence and uniqueness result, as well as comparison theorems for the solutions, are…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Lifen An , Samuel N. Cohen , Shaolin Ji

The problem of optimal switching between nonlinear autonomous subsystems is investigated in this study where the objective is not only bringing the states to close to the desired point, but also adjusting the switching pattern, in the sense…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Ali Heydari

This paper introduces a new class of optimal switching problems, where the player is allowed to switch at a sequence of exogenous Poisson arrival times, and the underlying switching system is governed by an infinite horizon backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Gechun Liang , Wei Wei

We consider reflected backward stochastic different equations with optional barrier and so-called regulated trajectories, i.e trajectories with left and right finite limits. We prove existence and uniqueness results. We also show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-10 Tomasz Klimsiak , Maurycy Rzymowski , Leszek Słomiński

We consider an optimal switching problem where the terminal reward depends on the entire control trajectory. We show existence of an optimal control by applying a probabilistic technique based on the concept of Snell envelopes. We then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Magnus Perninge

In the first part of the paper, we study reflected backward stochastic differential equations (RBSDEs) with lower obstacle which is assumed to be right upper-semicontinuous but not necessarily right-continuous. We prove existence and…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Miryana Grigorova , Peter Imkeller , Elias Offen , Youssef Ouknine , Marie-Claire Quenez

We define a class of reflected backward stochastic differential equation (RBSDE) driven by a marked point process (MPP) and a Brownian motion, where the solution is constrained to stay above a given c\`adl\`ag process. The MPP is only…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Nahuel Foresta

In this paper, we study existence and uniqueness to multidimensional Reflected Backward Stochastic Differential Equation in an open convex domain, allowing for oblique directions of reflection. In a Markovian framework, combining \emph{a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Jean-François Chassagneux , Adrien Richou

The main contributions of this paper are three fold. First, our primary concern is to investigate a class of stochastic recursive delayed control problems which arise naturally with sound backgrounds but have not been well-studied yet. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Li Chen , Jianhui Huang

We consider a reflected backward stochastic differential equations with default time and an optional barrier in a filtration generated by a one-dimensional Brownian motion and a defaultable process. We suppose that the barrier have…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Badr Elmansouri , Mohamed El Otmani

Selected results for the stability and optimal control of abstract switched systems in Banach and Hilbert space are reviewed. The dynamics are typically given in a piecewise sense by a family of nonlinearly perturbed evolutions of strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Falk M. Hante

This paper investigates a new class of homogeneous stochastic control problems with cone control constraints, extending the classical homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) framework to encompass nonlinear system dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

In this paper we introduce a new kind of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations, called ergodic BSDEs, which arise naturally in the study of optimal ergodic control. We study the existence, uniqueness and regularity of solution to…

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