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Stochastic optimal control problems governed by delay equations with delay in the control are usually more difficult to study than the the ones when the delay appears only in the state. This is particularly true when we look at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-22 F. Gozzi , F. Masiero

In this article, a class of optimal control problems of differential equations with delays are investigated for which the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations are nonlinear partial differential equations with delays. This type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Jianjun Zhou

This paper studies the stochastic optimal control of jump-diffusion processes and the associated fully nonlinear backward stochastic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (BSHJB) equations. We establish the dynamic programming principle (DPP) via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Dunxiang Liang , Qingxin Meng

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Akan Selim , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper is concerned with stochastic impulse control problems in which the running cost changes depending on the impulse control. Because of such a dependence, it brings several difficulties when the usual dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yuchen Cao , Jiongmin Yong

This paper is devoted to the stochastic optimal control problem of infinite-dimensional differential systems allowing for both path-dependence and measurable randomness. As opposed to the deterministic path-dependent cases studied by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Jinniao Qiu , Yang Yang

In this paper we study the optimal stochastic control problem for stochastic differential systems reflected in a domain. The cost functional is a recursive one, which is defined via generalized backward stochastic differential equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-26 Juan Li , Shanjian Tang

Optimal control and the associated second-order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equation are studied for unbounded functional stochastic evolution systems in Hilbert spaces. The notion of viscosity solution without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Shanjian Tang , Jianjun Zhou

We study optimal control problems for interacting branching diffusion processes, a class of measure-valued dynamics capturing both spatial motion and branching mechanisms. From the perspective of the dynamic programming principle, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Antonio Ocello

We consider a class of exit time stochastic control problems for diffusion processes with discounted criterion, where the controller can utilize a given amount of resource, called "fuel". In contrast to the vast majority of existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Dmitry B. Rokhlin , Georgii Mironenko

In this paper, a stochastic optimal control problem is investigated in which the system is governed by a stochastic functional differential equation. In the framework of functional It\^o calculus, we build the dynamic programming principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Shaolin Ji , Shuzhen Yang

In this manuscript we consider optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations with delays in the state and in the control. First, we prove an equivalent Markovian reformulation on Hilbert spaces of the state equation. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Filippo de Feo

In this paper, we adapt stochastic Perron's method to analyze a stochastic target problem with unbounded controls in a jump diffusion set-up. With this method, we construct a viscosity sub-solution and super-solution to the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiaqi Li

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

We consider a stochastic optimal control problem where the controller can anticipate the evolution of the driving noise over some dynamically changing time window. The controlled state dynamics are understood as a rough differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Peter Bank , Franziska Bielert

In this paper, we consider the problem of controlling a diffusion process pertaining to an opioid epidemic dynamical model with random perturbation so as to prevent it from leaving a given bounded open domain. Here, we assume that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Getachew K. Befekadu , Quanyan Zhu

The ergodic control problem for a non-degenerate controlled diffusion controlled through its drift is considered under a uniform stability condition that ensures the well-posedness of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Vivek S. Borkar

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for jump diffusion systems with state constraints. In general, the value function of such problems is a discontinuous viscosity solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Jun Moon

We introduce a method for approximating viscosity solutions of stationary degenerate elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations on bounded domains arising in stochastic exit-time control. Viscosity enforcement is formulated as a min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alen E. Golpashin , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Melkior Ornik , Bruce A. Conway

This paper, which is the natural continuation of a previous paper by the same authors, studies a class of optimal control problems with state constraints where the state equation is a differential equation with delays. This class includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-07-10 Salvatore Federico , Ben Goldys , Fausto Gozzi