%0 Journal Article %T General Smooth Solutions to the HJB PDE: Applications to Finance %A Moawia Alghalith %J Quantitative Finance %D 2012 %I arXiv %X We overcome a major obstacle in mathematical optimization. In so doing, we provide a smooth solution to the HJB PDE without assuming the differentiability of the value function. We apply our method to financial models. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5816v7