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This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic (LQ) leader-follower differential game with mixed deterministic and stochastic controls. In the game, the follower is a random controller which means that the follower can choose adapted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Jingtao Shi , Guangchen Wang

A fundamental theory of deterministic linear-quadratic (LQ) control is the equivalent relationship between control problems, two-point boundary value problems and Riccati equations. In this paper, we extend the equivalence to a general…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-10-13 Hongyan Cai , Danhong Chen , Yunfei Peng , Wei Wei

We study in this paper the linear quadratic optimal control (linear quadratic regulation, LQR for short) for discrete-time complex-valued linear systems, which have shown to have several potential applications in control theory. Firstly, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bin Zhou

Distributed optimal control is known to be challenging and can become intractable even for linear-quadratic regulator problems. In this work, we study a special class of such problems where distributed state feedback controllers can give…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Johan Olsson , Runyu Zhang , Emma Tegling , Na Li

This paper presents approaches to mean-field control, motivated by distributed control of multi-agent systems. Control solutions are based on a convex optimization problem, whose domain is a convex set of probability mass functions (pmfs).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Neil Cammardella , Ana Bušić , Sean Meyn

We consider the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem for a class of evolution equations in infinite dimensions, in the presence of distributed and nonlocal inputs. Following the perspective taken in our previous research work on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Paolo Acquistapace , Francesca Bucci

In this paper we consider a mean field optimal control problem with an aggregation-diffusion constraint, where agents interact through a potential, in the presence of a Gaussian noise term. Our analysis focuses on a PDE system coupling a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Jose A. Carrillo , Edgard A. Pimentel , Vardan K. Voskanyan

We investigate convergence and turnpike properties for linear-quadratic mean field control problems with common noise. Within a unified framework, we analyze a finite-horizon social optimization problem, its mean field control limit, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiamin Jian

This paper investigates the social optimum for a dynamic linear quadratic collective choice problem where a group of agents choose among multiple alternatives or destinations. The agents' common objective is to minimize the average cost of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Noureddine Toumi , Roland Malhamé , Jérôme Le Ny

Asymptotic stability in economic receding horizon control can be obtained under a strict dissipativity assumption, related to positive-definiteness of a so-called rotated cost, and through the use of suitable terminal cost and constraints.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Mario Zanon

This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem. The notions of open-loop and closed-loop solvabilities are introduced. A simple example shows that these two solvabilities are different.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Jingrui Sun , Xun Li , Jiongmin Yong

The risk-neutral LQR controller is optimal for stochastic linear dynamical systems. However, the classical optimal controller performs inefficiently in the presence of low-probability yet statistically significant (risky) events. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Masoud Roudneshin , Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Jiacheng Wu , Qi Zhang

A discrete-time stochastic LQ problem with multiplicative noises and state transmission delay is studied in this paper, which does not require any definiteness constraint on the cost weighting matrices. From some abstract representations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Yuan-Hua Ni , Cedric Ka-Fai Yiu , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

We study the closed-loop solvability of a stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem for systems governed by stochastic evolution equations. This solvability is established by means of solvability of the corresponding Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Qi Lü

This paper focuses on the role of a government of a large population of interacting agents as a mean field optimal control problem derived from deterministic finite agent dynamics. The control problems are constrained by a PDE of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Massimo Fornasier , Stefano Lisini , Carlo Orrieri , Giuseppe Savaré

We derive an explicit solution to the operator Riccati equation solving the Linear-Quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem for a class of boundary controlled hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). Different descriptions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Anthony Hastir , Birgit Jacob , Hans Zwart

This paper studies an infinite horizon optimal control problem for discrete-time linear systems and quadratic criteria, both with random parameters which are independent and identically distributed with respect to time. A classical approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng , Fu Zhang

In this technical note, we consider the linear-quadratic time-inconsistent mean-field type leader-follower Stackelberg differential game with an adapted open-loop information structure. The objective functionals of the leader and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Jun Moon , Hyun Jong Yang

In this study, we introduce numerical methods for discretizing continuous-time linear-quadratic optimal control problems (LQ-OCPs). The discretization of continuous-time LQ-OCPs is formulated into differential equation systems, and we can…