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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 1999 Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 705–737 (Mi tvp1030)

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Diffusion approximation and optimal stochastic control

R. Liptserab, W. J. Runggaldierc, M. I. Taksard

a Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
b Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, Tel Aviv University, Israel
c Dipartimento di Matematica Pura å Applicata, Universita di Padova, Italy
d Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

Abstract: In this paper a stochastic control model is studied that admits a diffusion approximation. In the prelimit model the disturbances are given by noise processes of various types: additive stationary noise, rapidly oscillating processes, and discontinuous processes with large intensity for jumps of small size. We show that a feedback control that satisfies a Lipschitz condition and is $\delta$-optimal for the limit model remains $\delta$-optimal also in the prelimit model. The method of proof uses the technique of weak convergence of stochastic processes. The result that is obtained extends a previous work by the authors, where the limit model is deterministic.

Keywords: stochastic control, stochastic differential equations, weak convergence, asymptotic optimality.

Received: 12.01.1998

DOI: 10.4213/tvp1030


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 2000, 44:4, 669–698

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