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We study in this paper the wellposedness of path-dependent multidimensional forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE). By path-dependent we mean that the coefficients of the forward-backward SDE at time t can depend on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Kaitong Hu

In this paper we consider a mean field optimal control problem with an aggregation-diffusion constraint, where agents interact through a potential, in the presence of a Gaussian noise term. Our analysis focuses on a PDE system coupling a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Jose A. Carrillo , Edgard A. Pimentel , Vardan K. Voskanyan

In this paper we investigate mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs), i.e., BDSDEs whose driving coefficients also depend on the joint law of the solution process as well as the solution of an associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Chuanzhi Xing

We discuss a class of explicitly solvable mean field type control problems/mean field games with a clear economic interpretation. More precisely, we consider long term average impulse control problems with underlying general one-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Sören Christensen , Berenice Anne Neumann , Tobias Sohr

We study a class of degenerate hyperbolic equations in a bounded domain whose degeneracy occurs at a boundary point. We first develop the weighted functional framework, prove well-posedness of the degenerate problem, and establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Dong-Hui Yang , Jie Zhong

We introduce the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional sparse optimal control problems with ODE constraints, modeling parsimonious interventions on the dynamics of a moving population divided into leaders and followers, to an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Massimo Fornasier , Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

In this paper we study the global approximate multiplicative controllability for nonlinear degenerate parabolic Cauchy problems. In particular, we consider a one-dimensional semilinear degenerate reaction-diffusion equation in divergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Giuseppe Floridia , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

We examine mean field control problems on a finite state space, in continuous time and over a finite time horizon. We characterize the value function of the mean field control problem as the unique viscosity solution of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Alekos Cecchin

For a class of Bellman equations in bounded domains we prove that sub- and supersolutions whose growth at the boundary is suitably controlled must be constant. The ellipticity of the operator is assumed to degenerate at the boundary and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Martino Bardi , Annalisa Cesaroni , Luca Rossi

This paper considers a linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field control problem involving a major player and a large number of minor players, where the dynamics and costs depend on random parameters. The objective is to optimize a social cost as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Minyi Huang , Son Luu Nguyen

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Salvatore Federico , Peter Tankov

In this work, we study solving (decoupled) forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) numerically using the regression trees. Based on the general theta-discretization for the time-integrands, we show how to efficiently use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Long Teng

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem of semi-linear degenerate backward stochastic partial differential equations (BSPDEs in short) under general settings without technical assumptions on the coefficients. For the solution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-09-06 Kai Du , Qi Zhang

We study the problem of learning the optimal control policy for fine-tuning a given diffusion process, using general value function approximation. We develop a new class of algorithms by solving a variational inequality problem based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wenlong Mou

In this paper we investigate a class of decoupled forward-backward SDEs, where the volatility of the FSDE is degenerate and the terminal value of the BSDE is a discontinuous function of the FSDE. Such an FBSDE is associated with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jianfeng Zhang

We study mean-field control (MFC) problems with common noise using the control randomisation framework, where we substitute the control process with an independent Poisson point process, controlling its intensity instead. To address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Robert Denkert , Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham

We study a wave equation in one space dimension with a general diffusion coefficient which degenerates on part of the boundary. Degeneracy is measured by a real parameter $\mu_a>0$. We establish observability inequalities for weakly (when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira , Piermarco Cannarsa , Günter Leugering

In this paper, we investigate the optimal control problems for stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short) of mean-field type with jump processes. The control variable is allowed to enter into both diffusion and jump terms. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Mokhtar Hafayed , Syed Abbas

We study the optimal control of path-dependent McKean-Vlasov equations valued in Hilbert spaces motivated by non Markovian mean-field models driven by stochastic PDEs. We first establish the well-posedness of the state equation, and then we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Andrea Cosso , Fausto Gozzi , Idris Kharroubi , Huyên Pham , Mauro Rosestolato

The present paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic behavior of the value functions of both finite and infinite horizon stochastic control problems and to the investigation of their relation with suitable stochastic ergodic control…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Andrea Cosso , Giuseppina Guatteri , Gianmario Tessitore