Error estimates for finite-dimensional approximations of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on the Wasserstein space

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Autori principali: Daudin, Samuel, Jackson, Joe, Seeger, Benjamin
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author Daudin, Samuel
Jackson, Joe
Seeger, Benjamin
author_facet Daudin, Samuel
Jackson, Joe
Seeger, Benjamin
contents In this paper, we study a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation set on the Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$, with a second order term arising from a purely common noise. We do not assume that the Hamiltonian is convex in the momentum variable, which means that we cannot rely on representation formulas coming from mean field control. In this setting, Gangbo, Mayorga, and Święch showed via viscosity solutions methods that the HJB equation on $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ can be approximated by a sequence of finite-dimensional HJB equations. Our main contribution is to quantify this convergence result. The proof involves a doubling of variables argument, which leverages the Hilbertian approach of P.L. Lions for HJB equations in the Wasserstein space, rather than working with smooth metrics which have been used to obtain similar results in the presence of idiosyncratic noise. In dimension one, our doubling of variables argument is made relatively simply by the rigid structure of one-dimensional optimal transport, but in higher dimension the argument is significantly more complicated, and relies on some estimates concerning the "simultaneous quantization" of probability measures.
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spellingShingle Error estimates for finite-dimensional approximations of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on the Wasserstein space
Daudin, Samuel
Jackson, Joe
Seeger, Benjamin
Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
Probability
In this paper, we study a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation set on the Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$, with a second order term arising from a purely common noise. We do not assume that the Hamiltonian is convex in the momentum variable, which means that we cannot rely on representation formulas coming from mean field control. In this setting, Gangbo, Mayorga, and Święch showed via viscosity solutions methods that the HJB equation on $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ can be approximated by a sequence of finite-dimensional HJB equations. Our main contribution is to quantify this convergence result. The proof involves a doubling of variables argument, which leverages the Hilbertian approach of P.L. Lions for HJB equations in the Wasserstein space, rather than working with smooth metrics which have been used to obtain similar results in the presence of idiosyncratic noise. In dimension one, our doubling of variables argument is made relatively simply by the rigid structure of one-dimensional optimal transport, but in higher dimension the argument is significantly more complicated, and relies on some estimates concerning the "simultaneous quantization" of probability measures.
title Error estimates for finite-dimensional approximations of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations on the Wasserstein space
topic Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02652