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In this article, we design and analyze a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) finite element approximation for a class of strongly nonlinear boundary value problems. We consider an HHO discretization for a suitable linearized problem and show its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Gouranga Mallik , Thirupathi Gudi

We consider stochastic impulse control problems when the impulses cost functions are arbitrary. We use the dynamic programming principle and viscosity solutions approach to show that the value function is a unique viscosity solution for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Brahim El Asri , Sehail Mazid

In this paper we study the numerical error arising in the space-time approximation of unsteady generalized Newtonian fluids which possess a stress-tensor with $(p,\delta)$-structure. A semi-implicit time-discretization scheme coupled with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Luigi C. Berselli , Lars Diening , Michael Ruzicka

We propose two novel numerical schemes for approximate implementation of the dynamic programming~(DP) operation concerned with finite-horizon, optimal control of discrete-time systems with input-affine dynamics. The proposed algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 M. A. S. Kolarijani , P. Mohajerin Esfahani

This work discusses the finite element discretization of an optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with time-dependent controls of bounded variation. The main focus lies on the convergence analysis of the discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Sebastian Engel , Philip Trautmann , Boris Vexler

We present a numerical method for rigorous over-approximation of a reachable set of differential inclusions. The method gives high-order error bounds for single step approximations and a uniform bound on the error over the finite time…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Sanja Gonzalez Zivanovic , Pieter Collins

Controlling systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is ubiquitous in science and engineering. For finding an optimal feedback controller, the value function and associated fundamental equations such as the Bellman equation and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Mathias Oster , Leon Sallandt , Reinhold Schneider

We present several numerical methods and establish their error estimates for the discretization of the nonlinear Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime, involving a small dimensionless parameter $0<\varepsilon\ll 1$ which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Weizhu Bao , Yongyong Cai , Xiaowei Jia , Jia Yin

In this paper, infinite horizon stochastic difference equations and backward stochastic difference equations with fractional noises are studied. The main difficulty comes from fractional noises on infinite horizon. Motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Yuecai Han , Yuhang Li

In this paper we consider nonautonomous optimal control problems of infinite horizon type, whose control actions are given by $L^1$-functions. We verify that the value function is locally Lipschitz. The equivalence between dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 J. Baumeister , A. Leitao , G. N. Silva

In this work, we study the optimal discretization error of stochastic integrals, in the context of the hedging error in a multidimensional It\^{o} model when the discrete rebalancing dates are stopping times. We investigate the convergence,…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Emmanuel Gobet , Nicolas Landon

This paper studies an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear elliptic equation, in which the control acts in a multiplicative or bilinear way as the reaction coefficient of the equation. We focus on the numerical discretization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Eduardo Casas , Konstantinos Chrysafinos , Mariano Mateos

This paper is devoted to a study of infinite horizon optimal control problems with time discounting and time averaging criteria in discrete time. It is known that these problems are related to certain infinite-dimensional linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Ilya Shvartsman

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

An adaptive direct collocation method is developed for solving optimal control problems constrained by parabolic partial differential equations. The partial differential equation is first reformulated in a variational setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander M. Davies , Sara Pollock , Miriam E. Dennis , Anil V. Rao

We consider fully discrete time-space approximations of abstract linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) consisting of an $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin (DG) time stepping scheme in conjunction with standard (conforming)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Omar Lakkis , Thomas P. Wihler

Motivated by the design of fast reinforcement learning algorithms, we study the diffusive limit of a class of pure jump ergodic stochastic control problems. We show that, whenever the intensity of jumps is large enough, the approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Marc Abeille , Bruno Bouchard , Lorenzo Croissant

We analyze rigorously error estimates and compare numerically spatial/temporal resolution of various numerical methods for the discretization of the Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime, involving a small dimensionless…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Weizhu Bao , Yongyong Cai , Xiaowei Jiao , Qinglin Tang

We consider impulse control problems in finite horizon for diffusions with decision lag and execution delay. The new feature is that our general framework deals with the important case when several consecutive orders may be decided before…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Bruder , Huyen Pham

We consider a general linear parabolic problem with extended time boundary conditions (including initial value problems and periodic ones), and approximate it by the implicit Euler scheme in time and the Gradient Discretisation method in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 J Droniou , R Eymard , T Gallouët , C Guichard , R Herbin