SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.57, No.3, 2185-2213, 2019
HJB EQUATIONS WITH GRADIENT CONSTRAINT ASSOCIATED WITH CONTROLLED JUMP-DIFFUSION PROCESSES
In this paper, we guarantee the existence and uniqueness (in the almost everywhere sense) of the solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation with gradient constraint and a partial integro-differential operator whose Levy measure has bounded variation. This type of equation arises in a singular control problem, where the state process is a multidimensional jump-diffusion with jumps of finite variation and infinite activity. We verify, by means of epsilon-penalized controls, that the value function associated with this problem satisfies the aforementioned HJB equation.
Keywords:HJB equation;nonlinear partial integro-differential Dirichlet problem;elliptic integro-differential operator;singular stochastic control problem