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This paper is concerned with a linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with fixed terminal states and integral quadratic constraints. A Riccati equation with infinite terminal value is introduced, which is uniquely solvable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Jingrui Sun

We give a complete solution to the problem of minimizing the expected liquidity costs in presence of a general drift when the underlying market impact model has linear transient price impact with exponential resilience. It turns out that…

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In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusion systems whose drift coefficient is piecewise Lipschitz continuous and exhibits threshold-induced discontinuities. Such dynamics naturally arise in applications with…

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In this article we approach a class of stochastic reachability problems with state constraints from an optimal control perspective. Preceding approaches to solving these reachability problems are either confined to the deterministic setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

Optimality conditions in the form of a variational inequality are proved for a class of constrained optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. The cost function and the inequality constraints are functions of the…

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This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

This paper is concerned with the open-loop time-consistent solution of time-inconsistent mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control. Different from standard stochastic linear-quadratic problems, both the system matrices and the…

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Trading frictions are stochastic. They are, moreover, in many instances fast-mean reverting. Here, we study how to optimally trade in a market with stochastic price impact and study approximations to the resulting optimal control problem…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-08-25 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Sebastian Jaimungal , Yuri F. Saporito

We solve explicitly a two-dimensional singular control problem of finite fuel type for infinite time horizon. The problem stems from the optimal liquidation of an asset position in a financial market with multiplicative and transient price…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Dirk Becherer , Todor Bilarev , Peter Frentrup

We consider optimal control problems for systems governed by mean-field stochastic differential equations, where the control enters both the drift and the diffusion coefficient. We study the relaxed model, in which admissible controls are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Khaled Bahlali , Meriem Mezerdi , Brahim Mezerdi

We consider the problem of stochastic optimal control, where the state-feedback control policies take the form of a probability distribution and where a penalty on the entropy is added. By viewing the cost function as a Kullback- Leibler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Marc Lambert , Francis Bach , Silvère Bonnabel

This paper studies the optimal control problems of stochastic evolution equations with infinite delay of general functional type. By introducing a non-anticipative path derivative and its infinite-window dual operator, we derive the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Guanwei Cheng

An optimal control problem is considered for linear stochastic differential equations with quadratic cost functional. The coefficients of the state equation and the weights in the cost functional are bounded operators on the spaces of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong , Zhiyong Yu

Motivated by linear-quadratic optimal control problems (LQ problems, for short) for mean-field stochastic differential equations (SDEs, for short) with the coefficients containing regime switching governed by a Markov chain, we consider an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Hongwei Mei , Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong

This paper focuses on stochastic optimal control problems with constraints in law, which are rewritten as optimization (minimization) of probability measures problem on the canonical space. We introduce a penalized version of this type of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Thibaut Bourdais , Nadia Oudjane , Francesco Russo

We study optimal liquidation strategies under partial information for a single asset within a finite time horizon. We propose a model tailored for high-frequency trading, capturing price formation driven solely by order flow through…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-08 Etienne Chevalier , Yadh Hafsi , Vathana Ly Vath

In this paper, we consider a stochastic recursive optimal control problem under model uncertainty. In this framework, the cost function is described by solutions of a family of backward stochastic differential equations. With the help of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Mingshang Hu , Falei Wang

This paper is concerned with a general linear quadratic (LQ) control problem of mean-field backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). Here, the weighting matrices in the cost functional are allowed to be indefinite. Necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Wencan Wang , Huanjun Zhang