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We study quadratic optimal stochastic control problems with control dependent noise state equation perturbed by an affine term and with stochastic coefficients. Both infinite horizon case and ergodic case are treated. To this purpose we…

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This paper is concerned with the partial information optimal control problem of wa controlled forward-backward stochastic differential equation of jump diffusion with correlated noises between the system and the observation. For this type…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Qingxin Meng

This paper investigates the near optimal control for a kind of linear stochastic control systems governed by the forward backward stochastic differential equations, where both the drift and diffusion terms are allowed to depend on controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Liangquan Zhang , Jianhui Huang , Xun Li

We analyze the infinite horizon minimax average cost Markov Control Model (MCM), for a class of controlled process conditional distributions, which belong to a ball, with respect to total variation distance metric, centered at a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Ioannis Tzortzis , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous

It has recently been shown that there are substantial differences in the regularity behavior of the empirical process based on scalar diffusions as compared to the classical empirical process, due to the existence of diffusion local time.…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-25 Angelika Rohde , Claudia Strauch

In this work we provide a computationally tractable procedure for designing affine control policies, applied to constrained, discrete-time, partially observable, linear systems subject to set bounded disturbances, stochastic noise and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Georgios Kotsalis , Guanghui Lan

The skew-product diffusion [Ann. Appl. Probab. 35, 3150--3214 (2025)] and exponentially tilted planar Brownian motion [Electron. J. Probab. 30, 1--97 (2025)] are canonical examples of planar diffusions with a point interaction at the origin…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Barkat Mian

We consider a variant of the classical linear quadratic Gaussian regulator (LQG) in which penalties on the endpoint state are replaced by the specification of the terminal state distribution. The resulting theory considerably differs from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

The article poses a general model for optimal control subject to information constraints, motivated in part by recent work of Sims and others on information-constrained decision-making by economic agents. In the average-cost optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Ehsan Shafieepoorfard , Maxim Raginsky , Sean P. Meyn

We prove a maximum principle for the problem of optimal control for a fractional diffusion with infinite horizon. Further, we show existence of fractional backward stochastic differential equations on infinite horizon. We illustrate our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Sven Haadem

We consider an optimal control problem that entails the minimization of a nondifferentiable cost functional, fractional diffusion as state equation and constraints on the control variable. We provide existence, uniqueness and regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Enrique Otárola , Abner J. Salgado

We obtain non-asymptotic Gaussian concentration bounds for the difference between the invariant measure $\nu$ of an ergodic Brownian diffusion process and the empirical distribution of an approximating scheme with decreasing time step along…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Igor Honoré , Stephane Menozzi , Gilles Pagès

Exploiting a fluid dynamic formulation for which a probabilistic counterpart might not be available, we extend the theory of Schroedinger bridges to the case of inertial particles with losses and general, possibly singular diffusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

We construct both normal and anomalous deterministic biased diffusions to obtain the Einstein relation for their time-averaged transport coefficients. We find that the difference of the generalized Lyapunov exponent between biased and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Takuma Akimoto

This paper is concerned with the optimal control of hysteresis-reaction-diffusion systems. We study a control problem with two sorts of controls, namely distributed control functions, or controls which act on a part of the boundary of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-01 Christian Münch

We analyse a class of estimators of the generalized diffusion coefficient for fractional Brownian motion $B_t$ of known Hurst index $H$, based on weighted functionals of the single time square displacement. We show that for a certain choice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Denis Boyer , David S. Dean , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio , Gleb Oshanin

The entropy production rate is a central quantity in non-equilibrium statistical physics, scoring how far a stochastic process is from being time-reversible. In this paper, we compute the entropy production of diffusion processes at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Lancelot Da Costa , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

In this paper we analyze an optimization problem with limited observation governed by a convection--diffusion--reaction equation. Motivated by a Schur complement approach, we arrive at continuous norms that enable analysis of well-posedness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Kent-Andre Mardal , Jarle Sogn , Stefan Takacs

In this work, we present numerical analysis for a distributed optimal control problem, with box constraint on the control, governed by a subdiffusion equation which involves a fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

We show that the Turing patterns in reaction systems with subdiffusion can be replicated in an effective system with Markovian cross-diffusion. The effective system has the same Turing instability as the original system, and the same…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-29 Joseph W. Baron , Tobias Galla