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We establish existence of nearly-optimal controls, conditions for existence of an optimal control and a saddle-point for respectively a control problem and zero-sum differential game associated with payoff functionals of mean-field type,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadène

This paper investigates the two-person zero-sum stochastic games for piece-wise deterministic Markov decision processes with risk-sensitive finite-horizon cost criterion on a general state space. Here, the transition and cost/reward rates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Subrata Golui

In this paper we study continuous-time two-player zero-sum optimal switching games on a finite horizon. Using the theory of doubly reflected BSDEs with interconnected barriers, we show that this game has a value and an equilibrium in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Said Hamadène , Randall Martyr , John Moriarty

We consider a two-player zero-sum deterministic differential game where each player uses both continuous and impulse controls in infinite-time horizon. We assume that the impulses supposed to be of general term and the costs depend on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Brahim El Asri , Hafid Lalioui

This paper addresses a continuous-time risk-minimizing two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game (SDG), in which each player aims to minimize its probability of failure. Failure occurs in the event when the state of the game enters…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Apurva Patil , Yujing Zhou , David Fridovich-Keil , Takashi Tanaka

We consider zero-sum stochastic differential games with possibly path-dependent controlled state. Unlike the previous literature, we allow for weak solutions of the state equation so that the players' controls are automatically of feedback…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Dylan Possamaï , Nizar Touzi , Jianfeng Zhang

Zero sum games with risk-sensitive cost criterion are considered with underlying dynamics being given by controlled stochastic differential equations. Under the assumption of geometric stability on the dynamics , we completely characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Anup Biswas , Subhamay Saha

This paper develops an algorithm for upper- and lower-bounding the value function for a class of linear time-varying games subject to convex control sets. In particular, a two-player zero-sum differential game is considered where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Vincent Liu , Chris Manzie , Peter M. Dower

We consider a finite-horizon, zero-sum game in which both players control a stochastic differential equation by invoking impulses. We derive a control randomization formulation of the game and use the existence of a value for the randomized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Magnus Perninge

We consider a stochastic differential game in the context of forward-backward stochastic differential equations, where one player implements an impulse control while the opponent controls the system continuously. Utilizing the notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Magnus Perninge

In this paper, we introduce a non-linear Snell envelope which at each time represents the maximal value that can be achieved by stopping a BSDE with constrained jumps. We establish the existence of the Snell envelope by employing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Magnus Perninge

Static potential games are non-cooperative games which admit a fictitious function, also referred to as a potential function, such that the minimizers of this function constitute a subset (or a refinement) of the Nash equilibrium strategies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Aathira Prasad , Puduru Viswanadha Reddy

Motivated by a vaccination coverage problem, we consider here a zero-sum differential game governed by a differential system consisting of a hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) and an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Mauro Garavello , Elena Rossi , Abraham Sylla

In this paper we establish a new connection between a class of 2-player nonzero-sum games of optimal stopping and certain $2$-player nonzero-sum games of singular control. We show that whenever a Nash equilibrium in the game of stopping is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Tiziano De Angelis , Giorgio Ferrari

We study a class of reflected backward stochastic differential equations with nonpositive jumps and upper barrier. Existence and uniqueness of a minimal solution is proved by a double penalization approach under regularity assumptions on…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-27 Sébastien Choukroun , Andrea Cosso , Huyen Pham

Zero-sum Dynkin games under Poisson constraints, where players can only stop at the event times of a Poisson process, have been studied widely in the recent literature. The constraint can be modelled in two ways: either both players share…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 David Hobson , Gechun Liang , Edward Wang

In this paper, we study an infinite horizon non-autonomous stochastic recursive differential game. To this end, we first establish well-posedness and stability results for BSDEs with a time-dependent discount factor and a possibly unbounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Sheng Huang , Qingmeng Wei

We generalize the results of Fleming and Souganidis (1989) on zero sum stochastic differential games to the case when the controls are unbounded. We do this by proving a dynamic programming principle using a covering argument instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Erhan Bayraktar , Song Yao

A zero-sum differential game with controlled jump-diffusion driven state is considered, and studied using a combination of dynamic programming and viscosity solution techniques. We prove, under certain conditions, that the value of the game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-28 Imran H. Biswas

The properties of value functions of time inhomogeneous optimal stopping problem and zero-sum game (Dynkin game) are studied through time dependent Dirichlet form. Under the absolute continuity condition on the transition function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-28 Yipeng Yang