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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Antoine Marie Bogso , Rhoss Likibi Pellat , Wilfried Kuissi Kamdem , Olivier Menoukeu Pamen

We establish existence, uniqueness and regularity of solution results for a class of backward stochastic partial differential equations with singular terminal condition. The equation describes the value function of non-Markovian stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Paulwin Graewe , Ulrich Horst , Jinniao Qiu

We discuss an open-loop backward Stackelberg differential game involving single leader and single follower. Unlike most Stackelberg game literature, the state to be controlled is characterized by a backward stochastic differential equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Xinwei Feng , Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang

This paper addresses a class of two-person zero-sum stochastic differential equations, which encompass Markov chains and fractional Brownian motion, and satisfy some monotonicity conditions over an infinite time horizon. Within the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Chang Liu , Hongtao Fan , Yajing Li

We solve non-Markovian optimal switching problems in discrete time on an infinite horizon, when the decision maker is risk aware and the filtration is general, and establish existence and uniqueness of solutions for the associated reflected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Randall Martyr , John Moriarty , Magnus Perninge

In this paper we study a class of time-inconsistent terminal Markovian control problems in discrete time subject to model uncertainty. We combine the concept of the sub-game perfect strategies with the adaptive robust stochastic to tackle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Tomasz R. Bielecki , Tao Chen , Igor Cialenco

In this paper, we establish a general stochastic maximum principle for optimal control for systems described by a continuous-time Markov regime-switching stochastic recursive utilities model. The control domain is postulated not to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Liangquan Zhang , Xun Li

We consider a class of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with superlinear driver process $f$ adapted to a filtration supporting at least a $d$ dimensional Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure on ${\mathbb R}^m- \{0\}.$ We…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Mahdi Ahmadi , Alexandre Popier , Ali Devin Sezer

In this paper, a stochastic control problem under model uncertainty with general penalty term is studied. Two types of penalties are considered. The first one is of type f-divergence penalty treated in the general framework of a continuous…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Wahid Faidi , Anis Matoussi , Mohamed Mnif

We study a finite-horizon stochastic control criterion for non-convex optimization in which Brownian exploration is balanced against a quadratic control cost. Rather than emphasizing the classical Hopf--Cole representation, we isolate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Qin Li , Sixu Li , Eitan Tadmor , Emmanuel Trélat

We consider a stochastic control problem for a class of nonlinear kernels. More precisely, our problem of interest consists in the optimisation, over a set of possibly non-dominated probability measures, of solutions of backward stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Dylan Possamaï , Xiaolu Tan , Chao Zhou

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusion systems whose drift coefficient is piecewise Lipschitz continuous and exhibits threshold-induced discontinuities. Such dynamics naturally arise in applications with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Antoine-Marie Bogso , Edward Fuituh Kameh , Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Felix Shu

We consider a non-Markovian optimal stopping problem on finite horizon. We prove that the value process can be represented by means of a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE), defined on an enlarged probability space, containing…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-20 Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham , Federica Zeni

We propose a simple and original approach for solving linear-quadratic mean-field stochastic control problems. We study both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon problems, and allow notably some coefficients to be stochastic. Our method is…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Matteo Basei , Huyên Pham

In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

This paper is concerned with a time-inconsistent stochastic optimal control problem in an infinite time horizon with a non-degenerate diffusion in the state equation. A major assumption is that people become rational after a large time.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, we consider a varying terminal time structure for the stochastic optimal control problem under state constraints, in which the terminal time varies with the mean value of the state. In this new stochastic optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Jin Shi , Shuzhen Yang

This paper analyzes the limiting behavior of stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems in finite time horizon $[0,T]$ as $T\rightarrow\infty$. The so-called turnpike properties are established for such problems, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Jingrui Sun , Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We develop a necessary stochastic maximum principle for a finite-dimensional stochastic control problem in infinite horizon under a polynomial growth and joint monotonicity assumption on the coefficients. The second assumption generalizes…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Carlo Orrieri , Petr Veverka