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For a class of quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs) of obstacle-type the stability of its solution set and associated optimal control problems are considered. These optimal control problems are non-standard in the sense that they involve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Amal Alphonse , Michael Hintermüller , Carlos N. Rautenberg

In this paper, we study a regularised relaxed optimal control problem and, in particular, we are concerned with the case where the control variable is of large dimension. We introduce a system of mean-field Langevin equations, the invariant…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Kaitong Hu , Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren

We study optimal control for mean-field forward backward stochastic differential equations with payoff functionals of mean-field type. Sufficient and necessary optimality conditions in terms of a stochastic maximum principle are derived. As…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Nacira Agram , Salah Eddine Choutri

Deterministic optimal impulse control problem with terminal state constraint is considered. Due to the appearance of the terminal state constraint, the value function might be discontinuous in general. The main contribution of this paper is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Yue Zhou , Xinwei Feng , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, we study the maximum principle of mean field type control problems when the volatility function depends on the state and its measure and also the control, by using our recently developed method. Our method is to embed the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

In this manuscript, we study a class of linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field control problems with a common noise and their corresponding $N$-particle systems. The mean field control problems considered are not standard LQ mean field control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Mengzhen Li , Chenchen Mou , Zhen Wu , Chao Zhou

In this article, we provide sufficient conditions under which the controlled vector fields solution of optimal control problems formulated on continuity equations are Lipschitz regular in space. Our approach involves a novel combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi

In this paper, we first prove that the mean-field stochastic linear quadratic (MFSLQ for short) control problem with random coefficients has a unique optimal control and derive a preliminary stochastic maximum principle to characterize this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

We are interested in the study of stochastic games for which each player faces an optimal stopping problem. In our setting, the players may interact through the criterion to optimise as well as through their dynamics. After briefly…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Dylan Possamaï , Mehdi Talbi

We study a stochastic control problem on a bounded domain, which arises from a continuous-time optimal management model. Via the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation the value function is shown to be jointly continuous and to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ruoting Gong , Christian Houdré

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

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Matteo Basei , Huyên Pham

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 focuses on the role of a government of a large population of interacting agents as a mean field optimal control problem derived from deterministic finite agent dynamics. The control problems are constrained by a PDE of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Massimo Fornasier , Stefano Lisini , Carlo Orrieri , Giuseppe Savaré

This work puts forward a novel numerical approach for solving the stochastic optimal control problem (SOCP) and the mean field control (MFC) problem using projection algorithm inspired by the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) which is also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Hui Sun

We study the turnpike phenomenon for optimal control problems with mean field dynamics that are obtained as the limit $N\rightarrow \infty$ of systems governed by a large number $N$ of ordinary differential equations. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Martin Gugat , Michael Herty , Chiara Segala

A linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem is considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with constant coefficients in an infinite horizon. The stabilizability of the control system is studied followed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Jianhui Huang , Xun Li , Jiongmin Yong

This paper studies a class of mean-field control (MFC) problems with singular controls under general dynamic state-control-law constraints. We first propose a customized relaxed control formulation to cope with the dynamic mixed constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

We formulate a stochastic game of mean field type where the agents solve optimal stopping problems and interact through the proportion of players that have already stopped. Working with a continuum of agents, typical equilibria become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Marcel Nutz

In the Maslov idempotent probability calculus, expectations of random variables are defined so as to be linear with respect to max-plus addition and scalar multiplication. This paper considers control problems in which the objective is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-21 Wendell H. Fleming , Hidehiro Kaise , Shuenn-Jyi Sheu

We propose a new approach to studying classical solutions of the Bellman equation and Master equation for mean field type control problems, using a novel form of the "lifting" idea introduced by P.-L. Lions. Rather than studying the usual…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Alain Bensoussan , P. Jameson Graber , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam