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We develop dual approaches for continuous-time stochastic control problems, enabling the computation of robust dual bounds in high-dimensional state and control spaces. Building on the dual formulation proposed in [L. C. G. Rogers, SIAM…

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This paper is concerned with a Stackelberg game of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), where the coefficients of the backward system and the cost functionals are deterministic, and the control domain is convex. Necessary and…

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In this paper, we consider optimal control problems derived by stochastic systems with delay, where control domains are non-convex and the diffusion coefficients depend on control variables. By an estimate of the integral of…

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We propose a stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) framework for a broad class of unconstrained controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and establish its mean-square exponential stability in the infinite-horizon limit. At…

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In this paper, we study the relationship between maximum principle (MP) and dynamic programming principle (DPP) for forward-backward control system under consistent convex expectation dominated by G-expectation. Under the smooth assumptions…

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