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We prove a version of the maximum principle, in the sense of Pontryagin, for the optimal control of a stochastic partial differential equation driven by a finite dimensional Wiener process. The equation is formulated in a semi-abstract form…
We develop a limit theory for controlled mean field stochastic partial differential equations in a variational framework. More precisely, we prove existence results for mean field limits and particle approximations, and we establish a…
We consider the minimal super-solution of a backward stochastic differential equation with constraint on the gains-process. The terminal condition is given by a function of the terminal value of a forward stochastic differential equation.…
This paper is concerned with the existence of optimal controls for backward stochastic partial differential equations with random coefficients, in which the control systems are represented in an abstract evolution form, i.e. backward…
We prove existence and pathwise uniqueness results for four different types of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) perturbed by the past maximum process and/or the local time at zero. Along the first three studies, the coefficients are…
In this paper, we aim to solve the high dimensional stochastic optimal control problem from the view of the stochastic maximum principle via deep learning. By introducing the extended Hamiltonian system which is essentially an FBSDE with a…
This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic (LQ) leader-follower differential game with mixed deterministic and stochastic controls. In the game, the follower is a random controller which means that the follower can choose adapted…
Stochastic maximum principle (SMP) specifies a necessary condition for the solution of a stochastic optimal control problem. The condition involves a coupled system of forward and backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) for the…
In this article, from the viewpoint of control theory, we discuss the relationships among the commonly used monotonicity conditions that ensure the well-posedness of the solutions arising from problems of mean field games (MFGs) and mean…
We study stochastic delay differential equations (SDDE) where the coefficients depend on the moving averages of the state process. As a first contribution, we provide sufficient conditions under which a linear path functional of the…
In the present work we employ, for the first time, backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) to study the optimal control of semi-Markov processes on finite horizon, with general state and action spaces. More precisely, we prove…
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In this paper we obtain results for the existence and uniqueness of solutions to coupled Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs) with jumps defined on a random environment. This environment corresponds to a…
We study the well-posedness of a system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) corresponding to a degenerate mean field type control problem, when the diffusion coefficient depends on the state together with its…
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…
(Working Paper) Using a purely probabilistic argument, we prove the global well-posedness of multidimensional superquadratic backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) without Markovian assumption. The key technique is the interplay…
In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the stochastic Pontryagin maximum principle, for controlled equation with delay in the state and with control dependent noise, in the general case of controls $u…
We develop a limit theory for controlled path-dependent mean field stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) within the semigroup approach of Da Prato and Zabczyk. More precisely, we prove existence results for mean field limits and…
Mathematical mean-field approaches have been used in many fields, not only in Physics and Chemistry, but also recently in Finance, Economics, and Game Theory. In this paper we will study a new special mean-field problem in a purely…
We study a general class of fully coupled backward-forward stochastic differential equations of mean-field type (MF-BFSDE). We derive existence and uniqueness results for such a system under weak monotonicity assumptions and without the…