Conjugate duality in stochastic controls with delay

This paper uses the method of conjugate duality to investigate a class of stochastic optimal control problems where state systems are described by stochastic differential equations with delay. For this, we first analyse a stochastic convex problem with delay and derive the expression for the corresp...

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Main Authors: Wang, Zimeng, Hodge, David J., Le, Huiling
Format: Article
Published: Applied Probability Trust 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44290/
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Summary:This paper uses the method of conjugate duality to investigate a class of stochastic optimal control problems where state systems are described by stochastic differential equations with delay. For this, we first analyse a stochastic convex problem with delay and derive the expression for the corresponding dual problem. This enables us to obtain the relationship between the optimalities for the two problems. Then, by linking stochastic optimal control problems with delay with a particular type of stochastic convex problem, the result for the latter leads to sufficient maximum principles for the former.