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This paper studies an optimal dividend problem with a drawdown constraint in a Brownian motion model, requiring the dividend payout rate to remain above a fixed proportion of its historical maximum. This leads to a path-dependent stochastic…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-08 Chonghu Guan , Jiacheng Fan , Zuo Quan Xu

A general time-inconsistent optimal control problem is considered for stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. Under suitable conditions, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman type equation is derived for the equilibrium value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Jiongmin Yong

In this work we investigate regularity properties of a large class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with or without obstacles, which can be stochastically interpreted in form of a stochastic control system which nonlinear cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-08 Rainer Buckdahn , Jianhui Huang , Juan Li

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

We propose notions of minimax and viscosity solutions for a class of fully nonlinear path-dependent PDEs with nonlinear, monotone, and coercive operators on Hilbert space. Our main result is well-posedness (existence, uniqueness, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Erhan Bayraktar , Christian Keller

In this work, we consider the local Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equation with regular potential in two dimensional bounded domain. We formulate distributed optimal control problem as the minimization of a suitable cost functional subject to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Sheetal Dharmatti , Perisetti Lakshmi Naga Mahendranath

This article is devoted to the optimal control of state equations with memory of the form: ?[x(t) = F(x(t),u(t), \int_0^{+\infty} A(s) x(t-s) ds), t>0, with initial conditions x(0)=x, x(-s)=z(s), s>0.]Denoting by $y_{x,z,u}$ the solution of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-02 Guillaume Carlier , Rabah Tahraoui

We prove comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in a strong coupling regime considering a stationary and a time-dependent version of the equation. We consider a Hamiltonian that has a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Serena Della Corte , Richard C. Kraaij

We study optimal stochastic control problems of general coupled systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps. By means of the It\^o-Ventzell formula the system is transformed to a controlled backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem , Tusheng Zhang

By extending \cite{bensoussan2015control}, we implement the proposal of Lions \cite{lions14} on studying mean field games and their master equations via certain control problems on the Hilbert space of square integrable random variables. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Alain Bensoussan , P. Jameson Graber , S. C. P. Yam

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for optimal control of systems governed by fractional backward stochastic evolution equations (FBSEEs) in Hilbert spaces. We first establish a stochastic maximum principle (SMP) as a necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Javad A. Asadzade , Nazim I. Mahmudov

We establish the existence and uniqueness of viscosity solutions within a domain $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb R^n$ for a class of equations governed by elliptic and eikonal type equations in disjoint regions. Our primary motivation stems from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Héctor A. Chang-Lara

This paper investigates a class of multiscale stochastic control problems driven by $\alpha$-stable L\'evy noises, where the controlled dynamics evolve across separate slow and fast time scales. The associated value functions are governed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Qi Zhang , Yanjie Zhang , Ao Zhang

This work is concerned with the time optimal control problem for evolution equations in Hilbert spaces. The attention is focused on the maximum principle for the time optimal controllers having the dimension smaller that of the state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Gabriela Marinoschi

In this paper we study stochastic optimal control problems of fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs). The recursive cost functionals are defined by controlled fully coupled FBSDEs. We study two cases of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Juan Li , Qingmeng Wei

The present paper considers a stochastic optimal control problem, in which the cost function is defined through a backward stochastic differential equation with infinite horizon driven by G-Brownian motion. Then we study the regularities of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Mingshang Hu , Falei Wang

Using a recently introduced representation of the second order adjoint state as the solution of a function-valued backward stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE), we calculate the viscosity super- and subdifferential of the value…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

We investigate an optimal control problem for a diffusion whose drift and running cost are merely measurable in the state variable. Such low regularity rules out the use of Pontryagin's maximum principle and also invalidates the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Kai Du , Qingmeng Wei

We establish new results for path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations with nonlinear monotone, and coercive operators on Hilbert space, which were initially studied in Bayraktar and Keller [J. Funct. Anal., 275 (8) (2018), pp. 2096-2161].…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Erhan Bayraktar , Mikhail Gomoyunov , Christian Keller

Optimal feedback controllers for nonlinear systems can be derived by solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. However, because the HJB is a nonlinear partial differential equation, numerical methods typically provide only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Morgan Jones , Matthew Peet