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Approximation of an optimal control problem for the time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation

Fabio Camilli 1,, , Serikbolsyn Duisembay 2, and  Qing Tang 3,

1. 

Dip. di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l'Ingegneria, Sapienza Università di Roma, via Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma, Italy
2. 

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), CEMSE Division, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
3. 

China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

* Corresponding author: Fabio Camilli

Received  June 2020 Revised  February 2020 Published  March 2021

In this paper, we study the numerical approximation of a system of PDEs which arises from an optimal control problem for the time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent drift. The system is composed of a backward time-fractional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and a forward time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation. We approximate Caputo derivatives in the system by means of L1 schemes and the Hamiltonian by finite differences. The scheme for the Fokker-Planck equation is constructed in such a way that the duality structure of the PDE system is preserved on the discrete level. We prove the well-posedness of the scheme and the convergence to the solution of the continuous problem.

Keywords: Time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation, Caputo derivative, Mean Field Games, finite-differences, convergence.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65N06, 91A16, 35R11.
Citation: Fabio Camilli, Serikbolsyn Duisembay, Qing Tang. Approximation of an optimal control problem for the time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation. Journal of Dynamics & Games, doi: 10.3934/jdg.2021013
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Figure 1.  Mass evolution (A) for $ \alpha = 1 $ (B) for $ \alpha = 0.85 $ (C) for $ \alpha = 0.7 $
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