Special Session 29: Mean field stochastic control problems and related topics

Optimal control problems with generalized mean-field dynamics and viscosity solution to Master Bellman equation

Rainer Buckdahn
Universite de Bretagne Occidentale
France
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Abstract:
In this talk we study an optimal control problem of generalized mean-field dynamics with open loop controls, where the coefficients depend not only on the state processes and controls, but also on the joint law of them. The value function $V$ defined in a conventional way, but it does not satisfy the Dynamic Programming Principle (DPP for short). For this reason we introduce subtly a novel value function $\vartheta$, which is closely related to the original value function $V$, such that, a description of $\vartheta$, as a solution of a partial differential equation (PDE), also characterizes $V$. We establish the DPP for $\vartheta$. By using an intrinsic notion of viscosity solutions, we show that the value function $\vartheta$ is a viscosity solution to a Master Bellman equation on a subset of Wasserstein space of probability measures. The uniqueness of viscosity solution is proved for coefficients which depend on the time and the joint law of the control process and the controlled process. The talk is based on joint work with Juan Li (SDU, China), Zhanxin Li (SDU, China).