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# A Viscosity Approach to Stochastic Differential Games of Control and Stopping Involving Impulsive Control

@article{Mguni2018AVA,
title={A Viscosity Approach to Stochastic Differential Games of Control and Stopping Involving Impulsive Control},
author={David Henry Mguni},
journal={arXiv: Optimization and Control},
year={2018}
}
• D. Mguni
• Published 30 March 2018
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Optimization and Control
This paper analyses a stochastic differential game of control and stopping in which one of the players modifies a diffusion process using impulse controls, an adversary then chooses a stopping time to end the game. The paper firstly establishes the regularity and boundedness of the upper and lower value functions from which an appropriate variant of the dynamic programming principle (DPP) is derived. It is then proven that the upper and lower value functions coincide so that the game admits a…
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