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Motivated by considerations from neuroscience (macroscopic behavior of large ensembles of interacting neurons), we consider a population of mean field interacting diffusions in $\mathbf {R}^m$ in the presence of a random environment and…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Eric Luçon , Wilhelm Stannat

We establish the mean-field convergence for systems of points evolving along the gradient flow of their interaction energy when the interaction is the Coulomb potential or a super-coulombic Riesz potential, for the first time in arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Sylvia Serfaty , appendix with Mitia Duerinckx

This paper studies a stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic optimal control problem with random coefficients. The state equation is a general linear stochastic differential equation with mean-field terms $\EE X(t)$ and $\EE u(t)$ of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Yanyan Tang , Jie Xiong

We study two interacting particle systems, both modeled as a system of $N$ stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions with singular kernels and moderate interaction. We show a quantitative result where the convergence rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Josué Knorst , Christian Olivera , Alexandre B. de Souza

We consider first-order conservative systems of particles with binary Coulomb interactions in the mean-field scaling regime in dimensions $d\geq 3$. We show that if at some time, the associated sequence of empirical measures converges in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Matthew Rosenzweig

We formulate a stochastic game of mean field type where the agents solve optimal stopping problems and interact through the proportion of players that have already stopped. Working with a continuum of agents, typical equilibria become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Marcel Nutz

In this paper, we study a regularised relaxed optimal control problem and, in particular, we are concerned with the case where the control variable is of large dimension. We introduce a system of mean-field Langevin equations, the invariant…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Kaitong Hu , Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren

We consider the scheduling control problem for a family of unitary networks under heavy traffic, with general interarrival and service times, probabilistic routing and infinite horizon discounted linear holding cost. A natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Amarjit Budhiraja , Arka Prasanna Ghosh

In this work, we focus on an infinite horizon mean-field linear-quadratic stochastic control problem with jumps. Firstly, the infinite horizon linear mean-field stochastic differential equations and backward stochastic differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Qingmeng Wei , Yaqi Xu , Zhiyong Yu

Relying on the careful study of a related problem in the calculus of variations, we study a class of optimal control problems in which the control lies on the acceleration, with state constraints on the position variable. In dimension one,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Yves Achdou

The recent work arXiv:2407.17373 proposes a derivative-free consensus-based particle method that computes global solutions to nonconvex-nonconcave min-max problems and establishes global exponential convergence in the sense of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Hui Huang , Jethro Warnett

We consider a mean field game describing the limit of a stochastic differential game of $N$-players whose state dynamics are subject to idiosyncratic and common noise and that can be absorbed when they hit a prescribed region of the state…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Matteo Burzoni , Luciano Campi

We consider the optimal control of quantum systems interacting non-linearly with an electromagnetic field. We propose new monotonically convergent algorithms to solve the optimal equations. The monotonic behavior of the algorithm is ensured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Lapert , R. Tehini , G. Turinici , D. Sugny

In this paper we consider symmetric games where a large number of players can be in any one of d states. We derive a limiting mean field model and characterize its main properties. This mean field limit is a system of coupled ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

The solutions to surface evolution problems like mean curvature flow can be expressed as value functions of suitable stochastic control problems, obtained as limit of a family of regularised control problems. The control-theoretical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Nicolas Dirr , Federica Dragoni , Raffaele Grande

We consider the stochastic optimal control problem of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation where the coefficients may depend upon the joint law of the state and control. By using feedback controls, we reformulate the problem into…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei

We propose a new monotonically convergent algorithm which can enforce spectral constraints on the control field (and extends to arbitrary filters). The procedure differs from standard algorithms in that at each iteration the control field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Lapert , R. Tehini , G. Turinici , D. Sugny

We study stochastic particle systems on a complete graph and derive effective mean-field rate equations in the limit of diverging system size, which are also known from cluster aggregation models. We establish the propagation of chaos under…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Watthanan Jatuviriyapornchai , Stefan Grosskinsky

Mean field limits are an important tool in the context of large-scale dynamical systems, in particular, when studying multiagent and interacting particle systems. While the continuous-time theory is well-developed, few works have considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Sebastian Trimpe

This work is concerned with the exponential turnpike property for optimal control problems of particle systems and their mean-field limit. Under the assumption of the strict dissipativity of the cost function, exponential estimates for both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Michael Herty , Yizhou Zhou