papers

Publications (34)

math.PR2009

Mean-field backward stochastic differential equations: A limit approach

Rainer Buckdahn, Boualem Djehiche, Juan Li +1

Mathematical mean-field approaches play an important role in different fields of Physics and Chemistry, but have found in recent works also their application in Economics, Finance…

math.PR2016

Brownian Bridges on Random Intervals

Matteo Ludovico Bedini, Rainer Buckdahn, Hans-Jürgen Engelbert

The issue of giving an explicit description of the flow of information concerning the time of bankruptcy of a company (or a state) arriving on the market is tackled by defining a b…

math.PR2016

Unexpected Default in an Information Based Model

Matteo Ludovico Bedini, Rainer Buckdahn, Hans-Jürgen Engelbert

This paper provides sufficient conditions for the time of bankruptcy (of a company or a state) for being a totally inaccessible stopping time and provides the explicit computation…

math.PR2021

A General Conditional McKean-Vlasov Stochastic Differential Equation

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Jin Ma

In this paper we consider a class of {\it conditional McKean-Vlasov SDEs} (CMVSDE for short). Such an SDE can be considered as an extended version of McKean-Vlasov SDEs with common…

math.PR2014

Mean-field stochastic differential equations and associated PDEs

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Shige Peng +1

In this paper we consider a mean-field stochastic differential equation, also called Mc Kean-Vlasov equation, with initial data which coefficients depend…

math.PR2013

Nonlinear stochastic differential games involving a major player and a large number of collectively acting minor agents

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Shige Peng

The purpose of this paper is to study 2-person zero-sum stochastic differential games, in which one player is a major one and the other player is a group of minor agents which…

math.PR2008

Stochastic control problems for systems driven by normal martingales

Rainer Buckdahn, Jin Ma, Catherine Rainer

In this paper we study a class of stochastic control problems in which the control of the jump size is essential. Such a model is a generalized version for various applied problems…

math.PR2017

A Mean-field Stochastic Control Problem with Partial Observations

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Jin Ma

In this paper we are interested in a new type of {\it mean-field}, non-Markovian stochastic control problems with partial observations. More precisely, we assume that the coefficie…

math.PR2007

Stochastic Differential Games and Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs Equations

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li

In this paper we study zero-sum two-player stochastic differential games with the help of theory of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs). At the one hand we generaliz…

math.OC2022

Mean field stochastic control under sublinear expectation

Rainer Buckdahn, Bowen He, Juan Li

Our work is devoted to the study of Pontryagin's stochastic maximum principle for a mean-field optimal control problem under Peng's -expectation. The dynamics of the controlled…

math.OC2008

Probabilistic Interpretation for Systems of Isaacs Equations with Two Reflecting Barriers

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li

In this paper we investigate zero-sum two-player stochastic differential games whose cost functionals are given by doubly controlled reflected backward stochastic differential equa…

math.OC2016

Peng's Maximum Principle for a Stochastic Control Problem Driven by a Fractional and a Standard Brownian Motion

Rainer Buckdahn, Shuai Jing

We study a stochastic control system involving both a standard and a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter less than 1/2. We apply an anticipative Girsanov transformation…

math.PR2021

Mean-field BDSDEs and associated nonlocal semi-linear backward stochastic partial differential equations

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Chuanzhi Xing

In this paper we investigate mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs), i.e., BDSDEs whose driving coefficients also depend on the joint law of the solu…

math.PR2008

Stochastic Differential Games with Reflection and Related Obstacle Problems for Isaacs Equations

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li

In this paper we first investigate zero-sum two-player stochastic differential games with reflection with the help of theory of Reflected Backward Stochastic Differential Equations…

math.PR2015

Generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with Dirichlet boundary and stochastic exit time optimal control problem

Rainer Buckdahn, Tianyang Nie

We consider a kind of stochastic exit time optimal control problems, in which the cost function is defined through a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We study t…

math.PR2020

Derivative over Wasserstein spaces along curves of densities

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Hao Liang

In this paper, given any random variable defined over a probability space , we focus on the study of the derivative of functions of the form $L\mapsto F_Q(…

q-fin.RM2009

Inf-convolution of G-expectations

Xuepeng Bai, Rainer Buckdahn

In this paper we will discuss the optimal risk transfer problems when risk measures are generated by G-expectations, and we present the relationship between inf-convolution of G-ex…

math.PR2013

Pathwise Taylor Expansions for Random Fields on Multiple Dimensional Paths

Rainer Buckdahn, Jin Ma, Jianfeng Zhang

In this paper we establish the pathwise Taylor expansions for random fields that are "regular" in the spirit of Dupire's path-derivatives \cite{Dupire}. Our result is motivated by…

math.PR2018

Fully nonlinear stochastic and rough PDEs: Classical and viscosity solutions

Rainer Buckdahn, Christian Keller, Jin Ma +1

We study fully nonlinear second-order (forward) stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). They can also be viewed as forward path-dependent PDEs (PPDEs) and will be treate…

math.PR2023

Path-depending controlled mean-field coupled forward-backward SDEs. The associated stochastic maximum principle

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Junsong Li +1

In the present paper we discuss a new type of mean-field coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MFFBSDEs). The novelty consists in the fact that the coefficien…

math.DS2015

Stochastic Variational Inequalities on Non-Convex Domains

Rainer Buckdahn, Lucian Maticiuc, Etienne Pardoux +1

The objective of this work is to prove, in a first step, the existence and the uniqueness of a solution of the following multivalued deterministic differential equation: $dx(t)+\pa…

math.PR2010

Pathwise Taylor Expansions for Itô Random Fields

Rainer Buckdahn, Ingo Bulla, Jin Ma

In this paper we study the {\it pathwise stochastic Taylor expansion}, in the sense of our previous work \cite{Buckdahn_Ma_02}, for a class of Itô-type random fields in which the…

math.OC2024

Optimal control problems with generalized mean-field dynamics and viscosity solution to Master Bellman equation

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Zhanxin Li

We study an optimal control problem of generalized mean-field dynamics with open-loop controls, where the coefficients depend not only on the state processes and controls, but also…

math.OC2007

Another proof for the equivalence between invariance of closed sets with respect to stochastic and deterministic systems

Rainer Buckdahn, Marc Quincampoix, Catherine Rainer +1

We provide a short and elementary proof for the recently proved result by G. da Prato and H. Frankowska that -- under minimal assumptions -- a closed set is invariant with respect…

math.OC2010

Integral-Partial Differential Equations of Isaacs' Type Related to Stochastic Differential Games with Jumps

Rainer Buckdahn, Ying Hu, Juan Li

In this paper we study zero-sum two-player stochastic differential games with jumps with the help of theory of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs). We generalize the…

math.OC2012

Value Function of Differential Games without Isaacs Conditions. An Approach with Non-Anticipative Mixed Strategies

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Marc Quincampoix

In the present paper we investigate the problem of the existence of a value for differential games without Isaacs condition. For this we introduce a suitable concept of mixed strat…

math.PR2014

Value in mixed strategies for zero-sum stochastic differential games without Isaacs condition

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Marc Quincampoix

In the present work, we consider 2-person zero-sum stochastic differential games with a nonlinear pay-off functional which is defined through a backward stochastic differential equ…

math.OC2024

A Global Stochastic Maximum Principle for Mean-Field Forward-Backward Stochastic Control Systems with Quadratic Generators

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Yanwei Li +1

Our paper is devoted to the study of Peng's stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a stochastic control problem composed of a controlled forward stochastic differential equation (S…

math.OC2015

Differential games with asymmetric information and without Isaacs condition

Rainer Buckdahn, Marc Quincampoix, Catherine Rainer +1

We investigate a two-player zero-sum differential game with asymmetric information on the payoff and without Isaacs condition. The dynamics is an ordinary differential equation par…

math.PR2012

Regularity properties for general HJB equations. A BSDE method

Rainer Buckdahn, Jianhui Huang, Juan Li

In this work we investigate regularity properties of a large class of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with or without obstacles, which can be stochastically interpreted in…

math.OC2017

Mean-field SDE driven by a fractional Brownian motion and related stochastic control problem

Rainer Buckdahn, Shuai Jing

We study a class of mean-field stochastic differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter and a related stochastic control problem.…

math.PR2007

Mean-Field Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and Related Partial Differential Equations

Rainer Buckdahn, Juan Li, Shige Peng

In [5] the authors obtained Mean-Field backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE) associated with a Mean-field stochastic differential equation (SDE) in a natural way as lim…

math.PR2018

Uniqueness of solution to scalar BSDEs with -integrable terminal values

Rainer Buckdahn, Ying Hu, Shanjian Tang

In [4], the existence of the solution is proved for a scalar linearly growing backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) if the terminal value is $L\exp{\left(μ\sqrt{2\log{(…

math.PR2009

Existence of an Optimal Control for Stochastic Systems with Nonlinear Cost Functional

Rainer Buckdahn, Boubakeur Labed, Catherine Rainer +1

We consider a stochastic control problem which is composed of a controlled stochastic differential equation, and whose associated cost functional is defined through a controlled ba…