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We tackle a nonlinear optimal control problem for a stochastic differential equation in Euclidean space and its state-linear counterpart for the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation in the space of probabilities. Our approach is founded on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Roman Chertovskih , Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn , A. Pedro Aguiar

We consider the problem of rare event importance sampling, where the random variable of interest is a path functional of an It\^o diffusion computed up to the first exit from a $d$-dimensional bounded domain. Dupuis and Wang (\textit{Ann.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Han Cheng Lie

This article examines the Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the Poisson equation, where the control variables are square integrable functions defined on the boundary of a two dimensional bounded, convex, polygonal domain. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Sudipto Chowdhury , Divay Garg

This work collects some methodological insights for numerical solution of a "minimum-dispersion" control problem for nonlinear stochastic differential equations, a particular relaxation of the covariance steering task. The main ingredient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Roman Chertovskih , Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn , A. Pedro Aguiar

This paper first summarizes the foundations of stochastic calculus via regularization and constructs through this procedure It\^o and Stratonovich integrals. In the second part, a survey and new results are presented in relation with finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francesco Russo , Pierre Vallois

The verification theorem serving as an optimality condition for the optimal control problem, has been expected and studied for a long time. The purpose of this paper is to establish this theorem for control systems governed by stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Liangying Chen , Qi Lü

The method of potential solutions of Fokker-Planck equations is used to develop a transport equation for the joint probability of N coupled stochastic variables with the Dirichlet distribution as its asymptotic solution. To ensure a bounded…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 J. Bakosi , J. R. Ristorcelli

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

In this manuscript, we aim to establish global existence of weak solutions with higher regularity to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations under no-slip boundary conditions. Though Lions\cite{L1} and Feireisl\cite{F1} have established…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Xiangdi Huang , Zhouping Xin , Wei Yan

In this article, we study the stochastic aggregation-diffusion equation with a singular drift represented by a monotone radial kernel. We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of a diffusion process that acts as a weak solution to our…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Jaouad Bourabiaa , Youssef Elmadani , Abdelouahab Hanine

Existing deterministic variational inference approaches for diffusion processes use simple proposals and target the marginal density of the posterior. We construct the variational process as a controlled version of the prior process and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Christian Wildner , Heinz Koeppl

We consider additive functionals as a time and space-dependent function of a diffusion corresponding to nonhomogeneous uniformly elliptic divergence form operator. We show that if the function belongs to natural domain of strong solutions…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Tomasz Klimsiak

We study in this paper the weak propagation of chaos for McKean--Vlasov diffusions with branching, whose induced marginal measures are nonnegative finite measures but not necessary probability measures. The flow of marginal measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Wenjing Cao , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaolu Tan

In this paper we shall prove the weak convergence of the associated diffusion processes of regular subspaces with monotone characteristic sets for a fixed Dirichlet form. More precisely, given a fixed 1-dimensional diffusion process and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Liping Li , Toshihiro Uemura , Jiangang Ying

In this article a simplified weak Galerkin finite element method is developed for the Dirichlet boundary value problem of convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The simplified weak Galerkin method utilizes only the degrees of freedom on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang

We investigate the Cauchy problem for a semilinear spatio--temporal fractional diffusion equation with a time-dependent forcing term: \[ \partial_t^\alpha u + (-\Delta)^{\mathsf{s}} u = |u|^p + t^{\sigma}\,\mathbf{w}(x), \quad (t,x) \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Rihab Ben Belgacem , Mohamed Majdoub

We consider the empirical process G_t of a one-dimensional diffusion with finite speed measure, indexed by a collection of functions F. By the central limit theorem for diffusions, the finite-dimensional distributions of G_t converge weakly…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aad van der Vaart , Harry van Zanten

The weak maximum principle of the isoparametric finite element method is proved for the Poisson equation under the Dirichlet boundary condition in a (possibly concave) curvilinear polyhedral domain with edge openings smaller than $\pi$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Buyang Li , Weifeng Qiu , Yupei Xie , Wenshan Yu

We prove sharp estimates for the decay in time of solutions to a rather general class of non-local in time subdiffusion equations on a bounded domain subject to a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Important special cases are the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Vicente Vergara , Rico Zacher

We consider a dynamic capillarity equation with stochastic forcing on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. \begin{equation*}\tag{P} d \left(u_{\varepsilon,\delta}-\delta \Delta u_{\varepsilon,\delta}\right) +\operatorname{div}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Michael Kunzinger , Darko Mitrovic