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It is well known that the rock-paper-scissors game has no pure saddle point. We show that this holds more generally: A symmetric two-player zero-sum game has a pure saddle point if and only if it is not a generalized rock-paper-scissors…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Peter Duersch , Joerg Oechssler , Burkhard C. Schipper

In this paper, the solvability of discrete-time stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem in finite horizon is considered. Firstly, it shows that the closed-loop solvability for the LQ control problem is optimal if and only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Yue Sun , Xianping Wu , Xun Li

This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem of Markovian regime switching system with model uncertainty and partial information, where the information available to the control is based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Na Xiang , Jingtao Shi

In this paper, we consider a linear quadratic (LQ) leader-follower stochastic differential game for regime switching diffusions with mean-field interactions. One of the salient features of this paper is that conditional mean-field terms are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Siyu Lv , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang

We investigate the linear quadratic stochastic optimal control problems in infinite dimension without Markovian restriction for coefficients. The necessary and sufficient conditions for open-loop optimal controls are presented. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Guangdong Jing

This paper studies finite-horizon stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems with random coefficients and Poisson jumps, where the weighting matrices may be random and indefinite. Under a uniform convexity condition on the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Kai Ding , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang

A two-person zero-sum differential game with unbounded controls is considered. Under proper coercivity conditions, the upper and lower value functions are characterized as the unique viscosity solutions to the corresponding upper and lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Hong Qiu , Jiongmin Yong

This paper is concerned with the open-loop time-consistent solution of time-inconsistent mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control. Different from standard stochastic linear-quadratic problems, both the system matrices and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-19 Yuan-Hua Ni , Ji-Feng Zhang , Miroslav Krstic

In this paper, an open-loop two-person non-zero sum stochastic differential game is considered for forward-backward stochastic systems. More precisely, the controlled systems are described by a fully coupled nonlinear multi- dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Maoning Tang , Qingxin Meng , Yongzheng Sun

This paper thoroughly investigates stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems with the Markovian regime switching system, where the coefficients of the state equation and the weighting matrices of the cost functional are random.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Jiaqiang Wen , Xun Li , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang

This paper is concerned with an overlapping information linear-quadratic (LQ) Stackelberg stochastic differential game with two leaders and two followers, where the diffusion terms of the state equation contain both the control and state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Yu Si , Jingtao Shi

We consider a multi-player stochastic differential game with linear McKean-Vlasov dynamics and quadratic cost functional depending on the variance and mean of the state and control actions of the players in open-loop form. Finite and…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Enzo Miller , Huyen Pham

We formulate a new class of two-person zero-sum differential games, in a stochastic setting, where a specification on a target terminal state distribution is imposed on the players. We address such added specification by introducing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

This paper delves into studying the differences and connections between open-loop and closed-loop strategies for the linear quadratic (LQ) mean field games (MFGs) by the direct approach. The investigation begins with the finite-population…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Yong Liang , Bing-Chang Wang , Huanshui Zhang

In this paper, we present an online learning approach for two-player zero-sum linear quadratic games with unknown dynamics. We develop a framework combining regularized least squares model estimation, high probability confidence sets, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Shanting Wang , Weihao Sun , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

This paper investigates the stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem of Markov regime switching system. The representation of the cost functional for the stochastic LQ optimal control problem of Markov regime…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Xin Zhang , Xun Li

This paper is concerned with a two-person zero-sum indefinite stochastic linear-quadratic Stackelberg differential game with asymmetric informational uncertainties, where both the leader and follower face different and unknown disturbances.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Na Xiang , Jingtao Shi

In this paper, we investigate a class of nonzero-sum dynamic stochastic games, where players have linear dynamics and quadratic cost functions. The players are coupled in both dynamics and cost through a linear regression (weighted average)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Jalal Arabneydi , Amir G. Aghdam , Roland P. Malhamé

In this paper, we investigate the closed-loop solvability of the quantum stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem. We derive the Pontryagin maximum principle for the linear quadratic control problem of infinite-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Wang Penghui , Wang Shan , Zhao Shengkai

This paper investigates a zero-sum stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ, for short) Stackelberg differential game problem, where the coefficients of the state equation and the weighting matrices in the performance functional are regulated by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Fan Wu , Xun Li , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang