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We study the optimal control of path-dependent piecewise deterministic processes. An appropriate dynamic programming principle is established. We prove that the associated value function is the unique minimax solution of the corresponding…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Elena Bandini , Christian Keller

We prove regularity and stochastic homogenization results for certain degenerate elliptic equations in nondivergence form. The equation is required to be strictly elliptic, but the ellipticity may oscillate on the microscopic scale and is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Scott N. Armstrong , Charles K. Smart

This paper presents a novel approach to numerically solve stochastic differential games for nonlinear systems. The proposed approach relies on the nonlinear Feynman-Kac theorem that establishes a connection between parabolic deterministic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Ziyi Wang , Keuntaek Lee , Marcus A. Pereira , Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We consider a convexity constrained Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-type obstacle problem for the value function of a zero-sum differential game with asymmetric information. We propose a convexity-preserving probabilistic numerical scheme for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Ľubomír Baňas , Giorgio Ferrari , Tsiry A. Randrianasolo

We consider a system of differential equations in a fast long range dependent random environment and prove a homogenization theorem involving multiple scaling constants. The effective dynamics solves a rough differential equation, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Johann Gehringer , Xue-Mei Li

This paper studies discrete-time two-person nonzero-sum linear quadratic stochastic games with random coefficients. Using convex variational analysis, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of open-loop Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Yongpeng Lin , Qingxin Meng , Maoning Tang

This article is devoted to the study of lower semicontinuous solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with convex Hamiltonians in a gradient variable. Such Hamiltonians appear in the optimal control theory. We present a necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Arkadiusz Misztela

In this paper we propose a numerical method to obtain an approximation of Nash equilibria for multi-player non-cooperative games with a special structure. We consider the infinite horizon problem in a case which leads to a system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Simone Cacace , Emiliano Cristiani , Maurizio Falcone

We establish existence and uniqueness of minimax solutions for a fairly general class of path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In particular, the relevant Hamiltonians can contain the solution and they only need to be measurable with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Elena Bandini , Christian Keller

We prove first-order convergence of semi-discrete monotone finite difference schemes for Hamilton--Jacobi equations on the Wasserstein space over a finite graph. A central challenge is the boundary degeneracy of the Wasserstein simplex,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Jianbo Cui , Tonghe Dang

Using a recently introduced representation of the second order adjoint state as the solution of a function-valued backward stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE), we calculate the viscosity super- and subdifferential of the value…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

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

We prove that the solution of the discounted approximation of a degenerate viscous Hamilton--Jacobi equation with convex Hamiltonians converges to that of the associated ergodic problem. We characterize the limit in terms of stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Hung V. Tran

We consider homogenization problems for first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations with $u^\epsilon/\epsilon$ periodic dependence, recently introduced by C. Imbert and R. Monneau, and also studied by G. Barles: this unusual dependence leads to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-11 Stefania Patrizi , Yves Achdou

We prove that for a class of zero-sum differential games with incomplete information on both sides, the value admits a probabilistic representation as the value of a zero-sum stochastic differential game with complete information, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Fabien Gensbittel , Catherine Rainer

We study the dynamics of a class of Hamiltonian systems with dissipation, coupled to noise, in a singular (small mass) limit. We derive the homogenized equation for the position degrees of freedom in the limit, including the presence of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Jeremiah Birrell , Jan Wehr

In this paper, we develop algorithms to overcome the curse of dimensionality in possibly non-convex state-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations (HJ PDEs) arising from optimal control and differential game problems. The subproblems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Yat Tin Chow , Jerome Darbon , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

We prove precise rates of convergence for monotone approximation schemes of fractional and nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations. We consider diffusion corrected difference-quadrature schemes from the literature and new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Indranil Chowdhury , Espen R. Jakobsen

In this note, we demonstrate that a locally semiconvex viscosity supersolution to a possibly degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is differentiable along the directions spanned by the range of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Mauro Rosestolato

We prove that the effective nonlinearities (ergodic constants) obtained in the stochastic homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi, "viscous" Hamilton-Jacobi and nonlinear uniformly elliptic pde are approximated by the analogous quantities of…

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