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We study a stochastic control problem for nonlinear systems governed by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift. The drift coefficient is assumed to decompose as $b(t,x,a)=b_1(t,x)+b_2(x)b_3(t,a)$, where $b_1$ is bounded and…

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In this paper, we consider the mixed optimal control of a linear stochastic system with a quadratic cost functional, with two controllers-one can choose only deterministic time functions, called the deterministic controller, while the other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Ying Hu , Shanjian Tang

We consider the stochastic optimal control problem for the dynamical system of the stochastic differential equation driven by a local martingale with a spatial parameter. Assuming the convexity of the control domain, we obtain the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Jian Song , Meng Wang

We study the optimal control problem for a weighted mean-field system. A new feature of the control problem is that the coefficients depend on the state process as well as its weighted measure and the control variable. By applying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Yanyan Tang , Jie Xiong

This article is concerned with stochastic control problems for backward doubly stochastic differential equations of mean-field type, where the coefficient functions depend on the joint distribution of the state process and the control…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Jian Song , Meng Wang

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed probabilistic analysis of the optimal control of nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems of the McKean Vlasov type. Motivated by the recent interest in mean field games, we highlight the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-26 René Carmona , Francois Delarue

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for a generalized Volterra control system. The corresponding state process is a kind of a generalized stochastic Volterra integral differential equations. We prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Yuhang Li , Yuecai Han

Optimal control of heterogeneous mean-field stochastic differential equations with common noise has not been addressed in the literature. In this work, we initiate the study of such models. We formulate the problem within a linear-quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Filippo de Feo , Samy Mekkaoui

In this paper, we derive first-order Pontryagin optimality conditions for risk-averse stochastic optimal control problems subject to final time inequality constraints, and whose costs are general, possibly non-smooth finite coherent risk…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Riccardo Bonalli , Benoît Bonnet

We study a control problem where the state equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation of the calculus of variation in a bounded domain, perturbed by noise. We allow the control to act on the boundary and set stochastic boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Stefano Bonaccorsi , Adrian Zalinescu

In this paper, we consider optimal control of stochastic differential equations subject to an expected path constraint. The stochastic maximum principle is given for a general optimal stochastic control in terms of constrained FBSDEs. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Ying Hu , Shanjian Tang , Zuo Quan Xu

Stochastic maximum principle of nonlinear controlled forward-backward systems, where the set of strict (classical) controls need not be convex and the diffusion coefficient depends explicitly on the variable control, is an open problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

In this paper we study the stochastic control problem of partially observed (multi-dimensional) stochastic system driven by both Brownian motions and fractional Brownian motions. In the absence of the powerful tool of Girsanov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yueyang Zheng , Yaozhong Hu

We study necessary optimality conditions for the deterministic mean field type free-endpoint optimal control problem. Our study relies on the Lagrangian approach that treats the mean field type control system as a crowd of infinitely many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Yurii Averboukh , Dmitry Khlopin

In this paper we prove a necessary condition of the optimal control problem for a class of general mean-field forward-backward stochastic systems with jumps in the case where the diffusion coefficients depend on control, the control set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tao Hao , Qingxin Meng

The objective of the present paper is to investigate the solution of fully coupled mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs in short) and to study the stochastic control problems of mean-field type as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-19 Ruimin Xu , Liangquan Zhang

This paper considers the stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem in which the control domain is nonconvex. By the functional analysis and convex perturbation methods, we establish a novel maximum principle. The application of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

Our work is devoted to the study of Pontryagin's stochastic maximum principle for a mean-field optimal control problem under Peng's $G$-expectation. The dynamics of the controlled state process is given by a stochastic differential equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Rainer Buckdahn , Bowen He , Juan Li

The aim of this notes is to give a concise introduction to control theory for systems governed by stochastic partial differential equations. We shall mainly focus on controllability and optimal control problems for these systems. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

We analyze a novel class of rough stochastic control problems that allows for a convenient approach to solving pathwise stochastic control problems with both non-anticipative and anticipative controls. We first establish the well-posedness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Ulrich Horst , Huilin Zhang