Drift Control with Discretionary Stopping for a Diffusion

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Hauptverfasser: Beneš, Václav E., Gaitsgori, Georgy, Karatzas, Ioannis
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author Beneš, Václav E.
Gaitsgori, Georgy
Karatzas, Ioannis
author_facet Beneš, Václav E.
Gaitsgori, Georgy
Karatzas, Ioannis
contents We consider stochastic control with discretionary stopping for the drift of a diffusion process over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to choose a control process and a stopping time to minimize the expectation of a convex terminal cost in the presence of a fixed operating cost and a control-dependent running cost per unit of elapsed time. Under appropriate conditions on the coefficients of the controlled diffusion, an optimal pair of control and stopping rules is shown to exist. Moreover, under the same assumptions, it is shown that the optimal control is a constant which can be computed fairly explicitly; and that it is optimal to stop the first time an appropriate interval is visited. We consider also a constrained version of the above problem, in which an upper bound on the expectation of available stopping times is imposed; we show that this constrained problem can be reduced to an unconstrained problem with some appropriate change of parameters and, as a result, solved by similar arguments.
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spellingShingle Drift Control with Discretionary Stopping for a Diffusion
Beneš, Václav E.
Gaitsgori, Georgy
Karatzas, Ioannis
Optimization and Control
Probability
Primary 93E20, 60G40, Secondary 60J60
We consider stochastic control with discretionary stopping for the drift of a diffusion process over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to choose a control process and a stopping time to minimize the expectation of a convex terminal cost in the presence of a fixed operating cost and a control-dependent running cost per unit of elapsed time. Under appropriate conditions on the coefficients of the controlled diffusion, an optimal pair of control and stopping rules is shown to exist. Moreover, under the same assumptions, it is shown that the optimal control is a constant which can be computed fairly explicitly; and that it is optimal to stop the first time an appropriate interval is visited. We consider also a constrained version of the above problem, in which an upper bound on the expectation of available stopping times is imposed; we show that this constrained problem can be reduced to an unconstrained problem with some appropriate change of parameters and, as a result, solved by similar arguments.
title Drift Control with Discretionary Stopping for a Diffusion
topic Optimization and Control
Probability
Primary 93E20, 60G40, Secondary 60J60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10043