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Stochastic differential equations and stochastic dynamics are good models to describe stochastic phenomena in real world. In this paper, we study N independent stochastic processes Xi(t) with real entries and the processes are determined by…

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We study the finite horizon Merton portfolio optimization problem in a general local-stochastic volatility setting. Using model coefficient expansion techniques, we derive approximations for the both the value function and the optimal…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-06-23 Matthew Lorig , Ronnie Sircar

In this paper we present a dynamical system to generate Brownian motion based on the Langevin equation without stochastic term and using fractional derivatives, i.e., a deterministic Brownian motion model is proposed. The stochastic process…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-09 H. E. Gilardi-Velázquez , E. Campos-Cantón

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problems under G-expectation. Based on the theory of backward stochastic differential equations driven by G-Brownian motion, which was introduced in [10.11], we can investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Zhonghao Zheng , Xiuchun Bi , Shuguang Zhang

Fractional Brownian motion is a self-affine, non-Markovian and translationally invariant generalization of Brownian motion, depending on the Hurst exponent $H$. Here we investigate fractional Brownian motion where both the starting and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-09 Mathieu Delorme , Kay Jörg Wiese

In this paper, we investigate an interesting and important stopping problem mixed with stochastic controls and a \textit{nonsmooth} utility over a finite time horizon. The paper aims to develop new methodologies, which are significantly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Chonghu Guan , Xun Li , Zuoquan Xu , Fahuai Yi

This article studies the problem of utility maximization in an incomplete market under a class of nonlinear expectations and general constraints on trading strategies. Using a $g$-martingale method, we provide an explicit solution to our…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-01-30 Wahid Faidi

We show that solutions of free stochastic differential equations with regular drifts and diffusion coefficients, when considered backwards in time, still satisfy free SDEs for an explicit free Brownian motion and drift. We also study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-20 Yoann Dabrowski

We define a fractional Ito stochastic integral with respect to a randomly scaled fractional Brownian motion via an $S$-transform approach. We investigate the properties of this stochastic integral, prove the Ito formula for functions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Yana A. Butko , Merten Mlinarzik

In the large financial market, which is described by a model with countably many traded assets, we formulate the problem of the expected utility maximization. Assuming that the preferences of an economic agent are modeled with a stochastic…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-10-21 Oleksii Mostovyi

In this paper the utility optimization problem for a general insurance model is studied. The reserve process of the insurance company is described by a stochastic differential equation driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Yuping Liu , Jin Ma

The aim of this paper is to address optimality of stochastic control strategies via dynamic programming subject to total variation distance ambiguity on the conditional distribution of the controlled process. We formulate the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Ioannis Tzortzis , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous

We consider the problem of utility maximization for small traders on incomplete financial markets. As opposed to most of the papers dealing with this subject, the investors' trading strategies we allow underly constraints described by…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Ying Hu , Peter Imkeller , Matthias Muller

Fractional Brownian motion has become a standard tool to address long-range dependence in financial time series. However, a constant memory parameter is too restrictive to address different market conditions. Here we model the price…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-31 Axel A. Araneda

In this paper, we study the classical problem of maximization of the sum of the utility of the terminal wealth and the utility of the consumption, in a case where a sudden jump in the risk-free interest rate creates incompleteness. The…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-06-03 Bogdan Iftimie , Monique Jeanblanc , Thomas Lim , Hai-Nam Nguyen

We study the problem of dynamically trading a futures contract and its underlying asset under a stochastic basis model. The basis evolution is modeled by a stopped scaled Brownian bridge to account for non-convergence of the basis at…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-05-28 Bahman Angoshtari , Tim Leung

This paper aims to establish second order necessary conditions for optimal control in quantum stochastic systems. We employ a variational approach, analogous to methods in classical stochastic control, to analyze systems governed by quantum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Penghui Wang , Shan Wang

Spearheaded by the recent efforts to derive stochastic geophysical fluid dynamics models, we present a generic framework for introducing stochasticity into variational principles through the concept of a semi-martingale driven variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Oliver D. Street , Dan Crisan

A stochastic procedure is developed which allows one to express Pontryagin's maximum principle for dissipative quantum system solely in terms of stochastic wave functions. Time-optimal controls can be efficiently computed without computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Chungwei Lin , Dries Sels , Yanting Ma , Yebin Wang

This is a follow up of our previous paper - Trybu{\l}a and Zawisza \cite{TryZaw}, where we considered a modification of a monotone mean-variance functional in continuous time in stochastic factor model. In this article we address the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-04-23 Jakub Trybuła , Dariusz Zawisza