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In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for second order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent stochastic differential equations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jianjun Zhou

This paper studies the stochastic optimal control of jump-diffusion processes and the associated fully nonlinear backward stochastic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (BSHJB) equations. We establish the dynamic programming principle (DPP) via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Dunxiang Liang , Qingxin Meng

This paper is concerned with providing the maximum principle for a control problem governed by a stochastic evolution system on a separable Hilbert space. In particular, necessary conditions for optimality for this stochastic optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-28 AbdulRahman Al-Hussein

In a Hilbert setting we aim to study a second order in time differential equation, combining viscous and Hessian-driven damping, containing a time scaling parameter function and a Tikhonov regularization term. The dynamical system is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Robert Ernö Csetnek , Mikhail A. Karapetyants

We discuss a class of linear control problems in a Hilbert space setting. This class encompasses such diverse systems as port-Hamiltonian systems, Maxwell's equations with boundary control or the acoustic equations with boundary control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-07 Rainer Picard , Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick

In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-dependent energy functional. We resort to ideas and techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Riccarda Rossi

In this paper, we study a kind of optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs for short) of McKean--Vlasov type via the dynamic programming principle (DPP for short) motivated by studying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Liangquan Zhang

We consider a stochastic system whose uncontrolled state dynamics are modelled by a general one-dimensional It\^{o} diffusion. The control effort that can be applied to this system takes the form that is associated with the so-called…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-15 Andrew J. F. Jack , Timothy C. Johnson , Mihail Zervos

We consider a class of stochastic optimal control problems for discrete-time stochastic linear systems which seek for control policies that will steer the probability distribution of the terminal state of the system close to a desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Isin M. Balci , Efstathios Bakolas

We examine the minimization of a quadratic cost functional composed of the output and the final state of abstract infinite-dimensional evolution equations in view of existence of solutions and optimality conditions. While the initial value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Timo Reis , Manuel Schaller

This paper is concerned with a stochastic recursive optimal control problem with time delay, where the controlled system is described by a stochastic differential delayed equation (SDDE) and the cost functional is formulated as the solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Jingtao Shi , Huanshui Zhang

In this paper we prove necessary conditions for optimality of a stochastic control problem for a class of stochastic partial differential equations that is controlled through the boundary. This kind of problems can be interpreted as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Giuseppina Guatteri

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusion systems whose drift coefficient is piecewise Lipschitz continuous and exhibits threshold-induced discontinuities. Such dynamics naturally arise in applications with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Antoine-Marie Bogso , Edward Fuituh Kameh , Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Felix Shu

We consider an infinite horizon discounted optimal control problem for piecewise deterministic Markov processes, where a piecewise open-loop control acts continuously on the jump dynamics and on the deterministic flow. For this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Elena Bandini

In the Maslov idempotent probability calculus, expectations of random variables are defined so as to be linear with respect to max-plus addition and scalar multiplication. This paper considers control problems in which the objective is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-21 Wendell H. Fleming , Hidehiro Kaise , Shuenn-Jyi Sheu

We develop a novel frequency-based H-infinity control method for a large class of infinite-dimensional Linear-Time-Invariant systems in transfer function form. Major benefits of our approach is that reduction or identification techniques…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-18 P. Apkarian , D. Noll

To investigate solutions of (near-)optimal control problems, we extend and exploit a notion of homogeneity recently proposed in the literature for discrete-time systems. Assuming the plant dynamics is homogeneous, we first derive a scaling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Mathieu Granzotto , Romain Postoyan , Lucian Buşoniu , Dragan Nešić , Jamal Daafouz

Robust control seeks stabilizing policies that perform reliably under adversarial disturbances, with $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ control as a classical formulation. It is known that policy optimization of robust $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Yuto Watanabe , Feng-Yi Liao , Yang Zheng

In this paper, we study a stochastic optimal control problem under degenerate G-expectation. By using implied partition method, we show that the approximation result for admissible controls still hold. Based on this result, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Xiaojuan Li

Qualitative and quantitative aspects for variational inequalities governed by strongly pseudomonotone operators on Hilbert space are investigated in this paper. First, we establish a global error bound for the solution set of the given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Pham Tien Kha , Pham Duy Khanh