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This paper focuses on indefinite stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic (MF-LQ, for short) optimal control problems, which allow the weighting matrices for state and control in the cost functional to be indefinite. The solvability of…
We propose a simple and original approach for solving linear-quadratic mean-field stochastic control problems. We study both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon pro\-blems, and allow notably some coefficients to be stochastic. Extension to…
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The quadratic optimal state feedback (LQR) is one of the most popular designs for linear systems and succeeds via the solution of the algebraic Riccati equation. The situation is different in the case of non-linear systems: the Riccati…
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