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We study a specific class of finite-horizon mean field optimal stopping problems by means of the dynamic programming approach. In particular, we consider problems where the state process is not affected by the stopping time. Such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Andrea Cosso , Laura Perelli

In this manuscript we consider a class optimal control problem for stochastic differential delay equations. First, we rewrite the problem in a suitable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Then, using the dynamic programming approach, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Filippo de Feo , Salvatore Federico , Andrzej Święch

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

We study zero-sum stochastic differential games where the state dynamics of the two players is governed by a generalized McKean-Vlasov (or mean-field) stochastic differential equation in which the distribution of both state and controls of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Huyen Pham , Andrea Cosso

In this paper, we consider the mean field optimal switching problem with a Markov chain under viscosity solution notion. Based on the conditional distribution of the Markov chain, the value function and corresponding dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Tian Chen , Guanxu Li , Zhen Wu

The master equation is a type of PDE whose state variable involves the distribution of certain underlying state process. It is a powerful tool for studying the limit behavior of large interacting systems, including mean field games and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Cong Wu , Jianfeng Zhang

In this paper, we study the maximum principle of mean field type control problems when the volatility function depends on the state and its measure and also the control, by using our recently developed method. Our method is to embed the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

We study optimal control problems governed by abstract infinite dimensional stochastic differential equations using the dynamic programming approach. In the first part, we prove Lipschitz continuity, semiconcavity and semiconvexity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Filippo de Feo , Andrzej Święch , Lukas Wessels

We consider a class of stochastic control problems where the state process is a probability measure-valued process satisfying an additional martingale condition on its dynamics, called measure-valued martingales (MVMs). We establish the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Alexander M. G. Cox , Sigrid Källblad , Martin Larsson , Sara Svaluto-Ferro

In this article, we provide an original systematic global-in-time analysis of mean field type control problems on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with generic cost functionals by the modified approach but not the same, firstly proposed in [7], as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Alain Bensoussan , Ho Man Tai , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

This paper is concerned with the relationship between general maximum principle and dynamic programming principle for the stochastic recursive optimal control problem with jumps, where the control domain is not necessarily convex. Relations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Bin Wang , Jingtao Shi

In this paper we analyze the optimal value function $v$ associated to a general parametric optimization problems via the theory of viscosity solutions. The novelty is that we obtain regularity properties of $v$ by showing that it is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Ochoa Pablo , Virginia N. Vera de Serio

This paper studies dynamic mean-variance (MV) asset allocation problems in general incomplete markets. Besides of the conventional MV objective on portfolio's terminal wealth, our framework can accommodate running MV objectives with general…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-25 Qian Lei , Chi Seng Pun , Jingxiang Tang

This paper analyzes a class of impulse control problems for multi-dimensional jump diffusions in the finite time horizon. Following the basic mathematical setup from Stroock and Varadhan \cite{StroockVaradhan06}, this paper first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Yann-Shin Aaron Chen , Xin Guo

We consider a jump-diffusion mean field control problem with regime switching in the state dynamics. The corresponding value function is characterized as the unique viscosity solution of a HJB master equation on the space of probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Erhan Bayraktar , Alekos Cecchin , Prakash Chakraborty

We consider a general class of stochastic optimal control problems, where the state process lives in a real separable Hilbert space and is driven by a cylindrical Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure; no special structure is imposed…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Elena Bandini , Fulvia Confortola , Andrea Cosso

We consider stochastic impulse control problems when the impulses cost functions are arbitrary. We use the dynamic programming principle and viscosity solutions approach to show that the value function is a unique viscosity solution for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Brahim El Asri , Sehail Mazid

We study the properties of the value function associated with an optimal control problem with uncertainties, known as average or Riemann-Stieltjes problem. Uncertainties are assumed to belong to a compact metric probability space, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-19 M. Soledad Aronna , Michele Palladino , Oscar Sierra

This paper is concerned with the stochastic recursive optimal control problem with mixed delay. The connection between Pontryagin's maximum principle and Bellman's dynamic programming principle is discussed. Without containing any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Weijun Meng , Jingtao Shi

Since Peng (1993) established a local maximum principle for a general stochastic control problem governed by forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs), the corresponding partial differential equation (PDE) characterization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yuhong Xu , Shuzhen Yang