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This paper is devoted to the study of fully nonlinear stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations for the optimal stochastic control problem of ordinary differential equations with random coefficients. Under the standard Lipschitz continuity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Jinniao Qiu , Wenning Wei

We consider a pathwise stochastic optimal control problem and study the associated (not necessarily adapted) Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman stochastic partial differential equation. We show that the value process is the unique solution of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Neeraj Bhauryal , Ana Bela Cruzeiro , Carlos Oliveira

In this paper we use the theory of viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations to study propagation phenomena in kinetic equations. We perform the hydrodynamic limit of some kinetic models thanks to an adapted WKB ansatz. Our models…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Emeric Bouin

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

In this short note we formulate a infinite-horizon stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusions of Ito-Levy type as a LP problem in a measure space, and prove that the optimal value functions of both problems coincide. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Rafael Serrano

We propose a novel numerical method for high dimensional Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) type elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The HJB PDEs, reformulated as optimal control problems, are tackled by the actor-critic framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Mo Zhou , Jiequn Han , Jianfeng Lu

The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is strongly utilized in engineering, biology and finance. In this paper, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci

The purpose of this paper is to describe the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) for an optimal control problem for quantum spin systems. This HJB equation is a first order nonlinear partial differential equation defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Srinivas Sridharan , Matthew R. James

The aim of this work is to deal with a discontinuous Hamilton-Jacobi equation in the whole euclidian N-dimensional space, associated to a possibly unbounded optimal control problem. Here, the discontinuities are located on a hyperplane and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Emmanuel Chasseigne , Robson Carlos Reis , Silvia Sastre-Gomez

We present a simple algorithm to approximate the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations by means of an artificial deep neural network. The algorithm uses a stochastic gradient descent-based method to minimize the least square…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai , Alex Massucco

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

Motivated by parallels between mean field games and random matrix theory, we develop stochastic optimal control problems and viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the setting of non-commutative variables. Rather than real…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Wilfrid Gangbo , David Jekel , Kyeongsik Nam , Aaron Z. Palmer

We establish a comparison principle for viscosity solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations posed on the space of nonnegative finite measures, thereby extending recent results for PDEs defined on the Wasserstein space…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Ibrahim Ekren , Xihao He , Tianxu Lan , Xiaolu Tan

This paper proposes a method to compute lower performance bounds for discrete-time infinite-horizon min-max control problems with input constraints and bounded disturbances. Such bounds can be used as a performance metric for control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Tyler H. Summers , Paul J. Goulart

In this paper, we study ergodic backward stochastic differential equations (EBSDEs for short), for which the underlying diffusion is assumed to be multiplicative and of at most linear growth. The fact that the forward process has an…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Ying Hu , Florian Lemonnier

The aim of this article is twofold. First, we develop a unified framework for viscosity solutions to both first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations and semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by the idiosyncratic operator, defined on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Giacomo Ceccherini Silberstein , Daniela Tonon

Classically, the optimal control problem in the presence of an adversary is formulated as a two-player zero-sum differential game or an $H_\infty$ control problem. The solution to these problems can be obtained by solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Alexander Krolicki , Sarang Sutavani , Umesh Vaidya

We study a specific class of finite-horizon mean field optimal stopping problems by means of the dynamic programming approach. In particular, we consider problems where the state process is not affected by the stopping time. Such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Andrea Cosso , Laura Perelli

We study the numerical approximation of time-dependent, possibly degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in bounded domains with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is well known that convergence towards the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Elisabetta Carlini , Athena Picarelli , Francisco J. Silva

In this paper, we study the problem concerning the approximation of a rigid obstacle for flows governed by the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in the two-dimensional case. The idea is to consider a highly viscous fluid in the place of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Sadokat Malikova