Invariance principles for G-brownian-motion-driven stochastic differential equations and their applications to G-stochastic control
Xiaoxiao Peng, Shijie Zhou, Wei Lin, Xuerong Mao
TL;DR
The work develops a framework for analyzing long-time behavior of stochastic systems under uncertainty by introducing a $G$-semimartingale convergence theorem and an invariance principle within the $G$-expectation setting. It establishes global well-posedness for $G$-SDEs with locally Lipschitz, linear-growth vector fields and demonstrates how these invariance principles enable robust $G$-stochastic control in representative dynamical systems. The results bridge classical stochastic stability concepts with sublinear expectation theory, providing quasi-sure convergence guarantees and Lyapunov-based stability under uncertain noise. The findings have practical implications for controlling and understanding complex systems subject to model uncertainty, with potential extensions to $G$-SDDEs/$G$-SFDEs and rigorous numerical schemes.
Abstract
The G-Brownian-motion-driven stochastic differential equations (G-SDEs) as well as the G-expectation, which were seminally proposed by Peng and his colleagues, have been extensively applied to describing a particular kind of uncertainty arising in real-world systems modeling. Mathematically depicting long-time and limit behaviors of the solution produced by G-SDEs is beneficial to understanding the mechanisms of system's evolution. Here, we develop a new G-semimartingale convergence theorem and further establish a new invariance principle for investigating the long-time behaviors emergent in G-SDEs. We also validate the uniqueness and the global existence of the solution of G-SDEs whose vector fields are only locally Lipchitzian with a linear upper bound. To demonstrate the broad applicability of our analytically established results, we investigate its application to achieving G-stochastic control in a few representative dynamical systems.
