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In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov stochastic partial differential equations, in which the coefficients depend on the law of the state process. For systems with nonconvex control sets, we establish a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Liangying Chen , Wilhelm Stannat

We consider an infinite-horizon optimal control problem with an asymptotic terminal constraint. For the the weakly overtaking criterion and the overtaking criterion, necessary boundary conditions on co-state arcs are deduced, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Dmitry V. Khlopin

This paper provides necessary conditions of optimality for optimal control problems with time delays in both state and control variables. Different versions of the necessary conditions cover fixed end-time problems and, under additional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Andrea Boccia , Richard B. Vinter

This article contributes to a framework for a computational indirect method based on the Pontryagin maximum principle to efficiently solve a class of state constrained time-optimal control problems in the presence of a time-dependent flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Roman Chertovskih , Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

This note outlines a mean-field approach to dynamic optimal transport problems based on the recently proposed McKean-Pontryagin maximum principle. Key aspects of the proposed methodology include i) avoidance of sampling over stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Sebastian Reich

In this note, we develop the first-order theory of optimal control problems with box constraints on the control. We emphasize the precise modification of Pontryagin's maximum principle when the admissible control set is compact, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Louis Shuo Wang

We study a class of deterministic mean field games on finite and infinite time horizons arising in models of optimal exploitation of exhaustible resources. The main characteristic of our game is an absorption constraint on the players'…

General Economics · Economics 2021-04-14 Paulwin Graewe , Ulrich Horst , Ronnie Sircar

We consider an optimal control problem for a system of local continuity equations on a space of probability measures. Such systems can be viewed as macroscopic models of ensembles of non-interacting particles or homotypic individuals,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Maxim Staritsyn , Nikolay Pogodaev , Roman Chertovskih , Fernando Lobo Pereira

In this paper, the optimal control problem of neutral stochastic functional differential equation (NSFDE) is discussed. A class of so-called neutral backward stochastic functional equations of Volterra type (VNBSFEs) are introduced as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Wenning Wei

In this paper, we establish a general stochastic maximum principle for optimal control for systems described by a continuous-time Markov regime-switching stochastic recursive utilities model. The control domain is postulated not to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Liangquan Zhang , Xun Li

We consider in this paper, mixed relaxed-singular stochastic control problems, where the control variable has two components, the first being measure-valued and the second singular. The control domain is not necessarily convex and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-28 Seid Bahlali

Safety filters provide a practical approach for enforcing safety constraints in autonomous systems. While learning-based tools scale to high-dimensional systems, their performance depends on informative data that includes states likely to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 James Dallas , Thomas Lew , John Talbot , Jonathan DeCastro , Somil Bansal , John Subosits

We study a control problem where the state equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation of the calculus of variation in a bounded domain, perturbed by noise. We allow the control to act on the boundary and set stochastic boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Stefano Bonaccorsi , Adrian Zalinescu

This paper considers a controlled It\^o-L\'evy process where the information available to the controller is possibly less than the overall information. All the system coefficients and the objective performance functional are allowed to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Thilo Meyer-Brandis , Xunyu Zhou , Bernt Oksendal

This paper mainly focuses on solving the dynamic optimization of the planar controlled crowd motion models with obstacles which is an application of a class of optimal control problems governed by a general perturbed nonconvex sweeping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Tan Cao , Boris Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

The general maximum principle is proved for an infinite dimensional controlled stochastic evolution system. The control is allowed to take values in a nonconvex set and enter into both drift and diffusion terms. The operator-valued backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng

Our work is devoted to the study of Pontryagin's stochastic maximum principle for a mean-field optimal control problem under Peng's $G$-expectation. The dynamics of the controlled state process is given by a stochastic differential equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Rainer Buckdahn , Bowen He , Juan Li

For a class of path-dependent stochastic evolution equations driven by cylindrical $Q$-Wiener process, we study the Pontryagin's maximum principle for the stochastic recursive optimal control problem. In this infinite-dimensional control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Guomin Liu , Jian Song , Meng Wang

We consider the simplest optimal control problem with one nonregular mixed inequality constraint, i.e. when its gradient in the control can vanish on the zero surface. Using the Dubovitskii--Milyutin theorem on the approximate separation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 A. V. Dmitruk , N. P. Osmolovskii

This paper studies an optimal control problem related to membrane filtration processes. A simple mathematical model of membrane fouling is used to capture the dynamic behavior of the filtration process which consists in the attachment of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Nesrine Kalboussi , Alain Rapaport , Térence Bayen , Nihel Ben Amar , Fatma Ellouze , Jérôme Harmand