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In this paper, we concern with the ergodic linear-quadratic closed-loop optimal control problems with random periodic coefficients. We put forward the random periodic mean-square exponentially stable condition, and prove the random…

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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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We consider an infinite horizon discounted optimal control problem for piecewise deterministic Markov processes, where a piecewise open-loop control acts continuously on the jump dynamics and on the deterministic flow. For this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Elena Bandini

In this work, we investigate the multidimensional Skorokhod problem for c\`adl\`ag processes, where the reflection is subject to a minimality condition depending on the law of the solution. We then apply these results to establish existence…

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In this article, we propose a new unifying framework for the investigation of multi-agent control problems in the mean-field setting. Our approach is based on a new definition of differential inclusions for continuity equations formulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

This paper investigates two-player ergodic nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with McKean-Vlasov dynamics. We establish a verification theorem connecting solutions of coupled Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) Master equations to Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Qingshuo Song , Gu Wang , Zuo Quan Xu , Chao Zhu

Consider the problem of a government that wants to reduce the debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio of a country. The government aims at choosing a debt reduction policy which minimises the total expected cost of having debt, plus the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Giorgio Ferrari

In this paper, a class of time inconsistent linear quadratic optimal control problems of mean-field stochastic differential equations (SDEs) is considered under Markovian framework. Open-loop equilibrium controls and their particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Tianxiao Wang

We study the relative value iteration for the ergodic control problem under a near-monotone running cost structure for a nondegenerate diffusion controlled through its drift. This algorithm takes the form of a quasilinear parabolic Cauchy…

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In this article, we analyse the existence of an optimal feedback controller of stochastic optimal control problems governed by SDEs which have the control in the diffusion part. To this end, we consider the underlying Fokker-Planck equation…

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In this article, we provide sufficient conditions under which the controlled vector fields solution of optimal control problems formulated on continuity equations are Lipschitz regular in space. Our approach involves a novel combination of…

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In this article, we consider a stochastic linear quadratic control problem with partial observation. A near optimal control in the weak formulation is characterized. The main features of this paper are the presence of the control in the…

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Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

In the present work, we develop a novel particle method for a general class of mean field control problems, with source and terminal constraints. Specific examples of the problems we consider include the dynamic formulation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Katy Craig , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Harlin Lee

We formulate and solve an optimal control problem with cooperative, mean-field coupled linear-quadratic subsystems and additional risk-aware costs depending on the covariance and skew of the disturbance. This problem quantifies the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Dhairya Patel , Margaret Chapman

The mean-field limit of a Markovian model describing the interaction of several classes of permanent connections in a network is analyzed. Each of the connections has a self-adaptive behavior in that its transmission rate along its route…

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The solution $\vartheta =(\vartheta_{t})_{t\geq 0}$ of a class of linear stochastic partial differential equations is approximated using Clark's robust representation approach (\cite{c}, \cite{cc}). The ensuing approximations are shown to…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Crisan , Jie Xiong

The Markowitz problem consists of finding in a financial market a self-financing trading strategy whose final wealth has maximal mean and minimal variance. We study this in continuous time in a general semimartingale model and under cone…

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This article discusses an optimal control problem for a phase field model of two immiscible incompressible fluid flow, incorporating surface tension effects. The optimal control problem is defined with a $L^2$-cost functional and subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Arghya Kundu

We present some new results on sample path optimality for the ergodic control problem of a class of non-degenerate diffusions controlled through the drift. The hypothesis most often used in the literature to ensure the existence of an a.s.…

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