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In the Maslov idempotent probability calculus, expectations of random variables are defined so as to be linear with respect to max-plus addition and scalar multiplication. This paper considers control problems in which the objective is to…

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We study optimal control problems for interacting branching diffusion processes, a class of measure-valued dynamics capturing both spatial motion and branching mechanisms. From the perspective of the dynamic programming principle, we…

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In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for second order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent stochastic differential equations. We…

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We consider the problem of optimal multi-modes switching in finite horizon, when the state of the system, including the switching cost functions are arbitrary ($g_{ij}(t,x)\geq 0$). We show existence of the optimal strategy, and give when…

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We study a specific class of finite-horizon mean field optimal stopping problems by means of the dynamic programming approach. In particular, we consider problems where the state process is not affected by the stopping time. Such problems…

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We prove a stochastic representation formula for the viscosity solution of Dirichlet terminal-boundary value problem for a degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman integro-partial differential equation in a bounded domain. We show that the unique…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Ruoting Gong , Chenchen Mou , Andrzej Swiech

Motivated by parallels between mean field games and random matrix theory, we develop stochastic optimal control problems and viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the setting of non-commutative variables. Rather than real…

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This paper investigates a class of multiscale stochastic control problems driven by $\alpha$-stable L\'evy noises, where the controlled dynamics evolve across separate slow and fast time scales. The associated value functions are governed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Qi Zhang , Yanjie Zhang , Ao Zhang

Deterministic optimal impulse control problem with terminal state constraint is considered. Due to the appearance of the terminal state constraint, the value function might be discontinuous in general. The main contribution of this paper is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Yue Zhou , Xinwei Feng , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, we study one kind of stochastic recursive optimal control problem with the obstacle constraints for the cost function where the cost function is described by the solution of one reflected backward stochastic differential…

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We construct an aggregated version of the value processes associated with stochastic control problems, where the criterion to optimise is given by solutions to semi-martingale backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). The results…

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In this paper, we study the $m$-states optimal switching problem in finite horizon, when the switching cost functions are arbitrary and can be positive or negative. This has an economic incentive in terms of central evaluation in cases…

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We study an inverse problem of the stochastic optimal control of general diffusions with performance index having the quadratic penalty term of the control process. Under mild conditions on the system dynamics, the cost functions, and the…

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In this paper, the stochastic verification theorems for stochastic control problems of reflected forward-backward stochastic differential equations are studied. We carry out the work within the frameworks of classical and viscosity…

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This paper is devoted to the stochastic optimal control problem of infinite-dimensional differential systems allowing for both path-dependence and measurable randomness. As opposed to the deterministic path-dependent cases studied by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Jinniao Qiu , Yang Yang

We solve the problem of mean-variance hedging for general semimartingale models via stochastic control methods. After proving that the value process of the associated stochastic control problem has a quadratic structure, we characterize its…

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