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Stochastic Spatio-Temporal processes are prevalent across domains ranging from modeling of plasma to the turbulence in fluids to the wave function of quantum systems. This letter studies a measure-theoretic description of such systems by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 George I. Boutselis , Ethan N. Evans , Marcus A. Pereira , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We study optimal stochastic control problem for non-Markovian stochastic differential equations (SDEs) where the drift, diffusion coefficients, and gain functionals are path-dependent, and importantly we do not make any ellipticity…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-04 Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham

This paper studies a robust stochastic control problem with a monotone mean-variance cost functional and random coefficients. The main technique is to find the saddle point through two backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Yuyang Chen , Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

This paper focuses on the discrete-time backward stochastic linear quadratic (BSLQ) optimal control problem with nonhomogeneous system terms and cost function cross terms. The terminal constraint of such systems distinguishes it from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hu Ligui , Meng Qingxin , Tang Maoning

In this paper, we consider optimal control problems of stochastic Volterra equations (SVEs) with singular kernels, where the control domain is not necessarily convex. We establish a global maximum principle by means of the spike variation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Yushi Hamaguchi

The paper is devoted to the optimal control of a system with two time-scales, in a regime when the limit equation is not of averaging type but, in the spirit of Wong-Zakai principle, it is a stochastic differential equation for the slow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Franco Flandoli , Giuseppina Guatteri , Umberto Pappalettera , Gianmario Tessitore

This paper investigates the $H_{2}/H_{\infty}$ control problem for linear stochastic differential systems under partial observation. Unlike existing studies that assume full state accessibility, we consider the scenario where the controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Changwang Xiao , Nan Yang , Qingxin Meng

We study the numerical approximation of the invariant measure of a viscous scalar conservation law, one-dimensional and periodic in the space variable, and stochastically forced with a white-in-time but spatially correlated noise. The flux…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Sébastien Boyaval , Sofiane Martel , Julien Reygner

We consider a singular stochastic control problem, which is called the Monotone Follower Stochastic Control Problem and give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a local-time type optimal control. To establish this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami

We consider a class of optimal control problems, with finite or infinite horizon, for a continuous-time Markov chain with finite state space. In this case, the control process affects the transition rates. We suppose that the controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Fulvia Confortola , Marco Fuhrman

We study stochastic differential equations (SDEs) whose drift and diffusion coefficients are path-dependent and controlled. We construct a value process on the canonical path space, considered simultaneously under a family of singular…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Marcel Nutz

This paper is devoted to a viscosity solution theory of the stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in the Wasserstein spaces for the mean-field type control problem which allows for random coefficients and may thus be non-Markovian.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Hang Cheung , Jinniao Qiu , Alexandru Badescu

We consider singular control in inventory management under Knightian uncertainty, where decision makers have a smooth ambiguity preference over Gaussian-generated priors. We demonstrate that continuous-time smooth ambiguity is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Arnon Archankul , Jacco J. J. Thijssen

In this paper we study a Markovian two-dimensional bounded-variation stochastic control problem whose state process consists of a diffusive mean-reverting component and of a purely controlled one. The main problem's characteristic lies in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Patrick Schuhmann

We present an empirical, gradient-based method for solving data-driven stochastic optimal control problems using the theory of kernel embeddings of distributions. By embedding the integral operator of a stochastic kernel in a reproducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Adam J. Thorpe , Jake A. Gonzales , Meeko M. K. Oishi

We study a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system with mass sources, which can be considered as a basic, though simplified, diffuse interface model for the evolution of tumor growth. This system is equipped with an impermeability condition for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Marco Abatangelo , Cecilia Cavaterra , Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

We consider stochastic impulse control problems where the process is driven by a general one-dimensional diffusion. We shall show a new mathematical characterization of the value function as a linear function in a certain transformed space.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masahiko Egami

We consider the problem of rare event importance sampling, where the random variable of interest is a path functional of an It\^o diffusion computed up to the first exit from a $d$-dimensional bounded domain. Dupuis and Wang (\textit{Ann.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Han Cheng Lie

In this article we study a finite horizon optimal control problem with monotone controls. We consider the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation which characterizes the value function. We consider the totally discretized problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Eduardo A. Philipp , Laura S. Aragone , Lisandro A. Parente

Recent studies have extended the use of the stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation to include complex variables for deriving quantum mechanical equations. However, these studies often assume that it is valid to apply the HJB…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Vasil Yordanov