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The subject of this work is a new stochastic Galerkin method for second-order elliptic partial differential equations with random diffusion coefficients. It combines operator compression in the stochastic variables with tree-based spline…
We study stochastic differential equations (SDEs) whose drift and diffusion coefficients are path-dependent and controlled. We construct a value process on the canonical path space, considered simultaneously under a family of singular…
Explicit, unconditionally stable, high-order schemes for the approximation of some first- andsecond-order linear, time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) are proposed.The schemes are based on a weak formulation of a…
In this paper, we study the maximum principle for stochastic optimal control problems of forward-backward stochastic difference systems (FBS{\Delta}Ss). Two types of FBS{\Delta}Ss are investigated. The first one is described by a partially…
Second-order partial differential equations in non-divergence form are considered. Equations of this kind typically arise as subproblems for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in the context of stochastic optimal control, or…
In this paper we investigate continuity properties of first and second order shape derivatives of functionals depending on second order elliptic PDE's around nonsmooth domains, essentially either Lipschitz or convex, or satisfying a uniform…
We develop dual approaches for continuous-time stochastic control problems, enabling the computation of robust dual bounds in high-dimensional state and control spaces. Building on the dual formulation proposed in [L. C. G. Rogers, SIAM…
This paper is concerned with the study of a class of nonsmooth cost functions subject to a quasi-linear PDE in Lipschitz domains in dimension two. We derive the Eulerian semi-derivative of the cost function by employing the averaged adjoint…
We consider controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with measurable coefficients, a uniformly elliptic diffusion coefficient and an $L_d$-drift. No space-regularity will be assumed for the coefficients. In this framework we…
Our purpose is to obtain gradient estimates for certain nonlinear partial differential equations by coupling methods. First we derive uniform gradient estimates for a certain semi-linear PDEs based on the coupling method introduced in Wang…
This article proposes for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) driven by additive noise, a novel approach for the approximate parameterizations of the ``small'' scales by the ``large'' ones, along with the derivaton of the…
We consider the optimal control of singular nonlinear partial differential equation which is the distributional formulation of the multiphase Stefan type free boundary problem for the general second order parabolic equation. Boundary heat…
In this article, using DiPerna-Lions theory \cite{Di-Li}, we investigate linear second order stochastic partial differential equations with unbounded and degenerate non-smooth coefficients, and obtain several conditions for existence and…
This paper examines the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a forward-backward stochastic control system where the backward state equation is characterized by the backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with quadratic growth and…
Mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (MF-BDSDEs, for short) are introduced and studied. The existence and uniqueness of solutions for MF-BDSDEs is established. One probabilistic interpretation for the solutions to a…
We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze an optimal control problem for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE); control constraints are also considered. We establish the…
An important class of spatio-temporal models is constructed by leveraging the hierarchical structure of dynamical (or, state-space) models. This paper proposes a new statistical dynamical model for spatio-temporal processes motivated by…
We consider parametric estimation for a second order linear parabolic stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) in two space dimensions driven by a $Q$-Wiener process with a small noise based on high frequency spatio-temporal data. We…
From economics point of view, we investigate a new optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with a multi-time states cost functional. By constructing a series of first-order adjoint equations, we establish the…
We obtain the variational equations for backward stochastic differential equations in recursive stochastic optimal control problems, and then get the maximum principle which is novel. The control domain need not be convex, and the generator…