Mean field approach to stochastic control with partial information
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 27 (2021) no. 1, article no. 89

In our present article, we follow our way of developing mean field type control theory in our earlier works [Bensoussan et al., Mean Field Games and Mean Field Type Control Theory. Springer, New York (2013)], by first introducing the Bellman and then master equations, the system of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) and Fokker-Planck (FP) equations, and then tackling them by looking for the semi-explicit solution for the linear quadratic case, especially with an arbitrary initial distribution; such a problem, being left open for long, has not been specifically dealt with in the earlier literature, such as Bensoussan [Stochastic Control of Partially Observable Systems. Cambridge University Press, (1992)] and Nisio [Stochastic control theory: Dynamic programming principle. Springer (2014)], which only tackled the linear quadratic setting with Gaussian initial distributions. Thanks to the effective mean-field theory, we propose a solution to this long standing problem of the general non-Gaussian case. Besides, our problem considered here can be reduced to the model in Bandini et al. [Stochastic Process. Appl. 129 (2019) 674–711], which is fundamentally different from our present proposed framework.

DOI : 10.1051/cocv/2021085
Classification : 49N30, 49N70, 49N90, 60H15, 60H30, 91A16
Keywords: Duncan-Mortensen-Zakai equations, mean field type control problem, Bellman and master equations, filtering formulae with non-Gaussian initial conditions, linear dynamics and quadratic payoff, settings with Gaussian or non-Gaussian initial distributions, Riccati equations
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Bensoussan, Alain; Yam, Sheung Chi Phillip. Mean field approach to stochastic control with partial information. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Tome 27 (2021) no. 1, article no. 89. doi: 10.1051/cocv/2021085

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