Discretisation of stochastic control problems for continuous time dynamics with delay

  • Authors:
  • Markus Fischer;Markus Reií

  • Affiliations:
  • Weierstraí-Institut (WIAS) Berlin, Mohrenstraíe 39, Berlin 10117, Germany;Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 294, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

As a main step in the numerical solution of control problems in continuous time, the controlled process is approximated by sequences of controlled Markov chains, thus discretising time and space. A new feature in this context is to allow for delay in the dynamics. The existence of an optimal strategy with respect to the cost functional can be guaranteed in the class of relaxed controls. Weak convergence of the approximating extended Markov chains to the original process together with convergence of the associated optimal strategies is established.