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The paper is concerned with a class of stochastic evolution equations in Hilbert space with random coefficients driven by Teugel's martingales and an independent multi-dimensional Brownian motion and its optimal control problem. Here…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Qingxin Meng , Qiuhong Shi , Maoning Tang

Solving equilibrium problems under constraints is an important problem in optimization and optimal control. In this context an important practical challenge is the efficient incorporation of constraints. We develop a continuous-time method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Siqi Qu , Mathias Staudigl

In a Hilbert setting, for convex differentiable optimization, we develop a general framework for adaptive accelerated gradient methods. They are based on damped inertial dynamics where the coefficients are designed in a closed-loop way.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Hedy Attouch , Radu Ioan Bot , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

We develop a unified framework for semilinear elliptic equations with gradient-dependent nonlinearities and singular weights in strictly convex domains. Considering large solutions of \[ -\Delta u + b(x)\,h(|\nabla u|) + a(x)\,u = f(x)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Dragos-Patru Covei

We study the partial differential equation max{Lu - f, H(Du)}=0 where u is the unknown function, L is a second-order elliptic operator, f is a given smooth function and H is a convex function. This is a model equation for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Ryan Hynd

This paper focuses on finding approximate solutions to stochastic optimal control problems with control domains being not necessarily convex, where the state trajectory is subject to controlled stochastic differential equations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Shaolin Ji , Rundong Xu

We consider a problem of stochastic optimal control with separable drift uncertainty in strong formulation on a finite horizon. The drift coefficient of the state $Y^{u}$ is multiplicatively influenced by an unknown random variable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Samuel N. Cohen , Christoph Knochenhauer , Alexander Merkel

This work investigates the optimal control problem for reflected McKean-Vlasov SDEs and the viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman(HJB) equations on the Wasserstein space in terms of intrinsic derivative. It follows from the flow…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Jinghai Shao

This paper firstly presents the necessary and sufficient conditions for a kind of discrete-time robust stochastic optimal control problem with convex control domains. As it is an "inf sup problem", the classical variational method is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Wei He

Stochastic optimal control problems governed by delay equations with delay in the control are usually more difficult to study than the the ones when the delay appears only in the state. This is particularly true when we look at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Fausto Gozzi , Federica Masiero

Path Integral Control methods were developed for stochastic optimal control covering a wide class of finite horizon formulations with control affine nonlinear dynamics. Characteristic for this class is that the HJB equation is linear and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Tom Lefebvre , Guillaume Crevecoeur

This paper is devoted to studying an infinite time horizon stochastic recursive control problem with jumps, where infinite time horizon stochastic differential equation and backward stochastic differential equation with jumps describe the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Sheng Luo , Xun Li , Qingmeng Wei

This work is concerned with the time optimal control problem for evolution equations in Hilbert spaces. The attention is focused on the maximum principle for the time optimal controllers having the dimension smaller that of the state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Gabriela Marinoschi

We study a class of singular stochastic control problems for a one-dimensional diffusion $X$ in which the performance criterion to be optimised depends explicitly on the running infimum $I$ (or supremum $S$) of the controlled process. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Giorgio Ferrari , Neofytos Rodosthenous

We consider a distributed optimal control problem subject to a parabolic evolution equation as constraint. The control will be considered in the energy norm of the anisotropic Sobolev space $[H_{0;,0}^{1,1/2}(Q)]^\ast$, such that the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Richard Löscher , Michael Reichelt , Olaf Steinbach

In this paper we consider the optimal control of Hilbert space-valued infinite-dimensional Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMP) and we prove that the corresponding value function can be represented via a Feynman-Kac type formula…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Elena Bandini , Michele Thieullen

There is a rising interest in Spatio-temporal systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) among the control community. Not only are these systems challenging to control, but the sizing and placement of their actuation is an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Ethan N. Evans , Andrew P. Kendall , George I. Boutselis , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The present paper continues the study of infinite dimensional calculus via regularization, started by C. Di Girolami and the second named author, introducing the notion of "weak Dirichlet process" in this context. Such a process $\X$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Giorgio Fabbri , Francesco Russo

This paper is concerned with stochastic impulse control problems in which the running cost changes depending on the impulse control. Because of such a dependence, it brings several difficulties when the usual dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yuchen Cao , Jiongmin Yong

We study the optimal control of general stochastic McKean-Vlasov equation. Such problem is motivated originally from the asymptotic formulation of cooperative equilibrium for a large population of particles (players) in mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei