Social Optima in Mean Field Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Control with Volatility Uncertainty

Autor: Jiongmin Yong, Bing-Chang Wang, Jianhui Huang
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. 59:825-856
ISSN: 1095-7138
0363-0129
DOI: 10.1137/19m1306737
Popis: This paper examines mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) social optimum control with volatility-uncertain common noise. The diffusion terms in the dynamics of agents contain an unknown volatility process driven by a common noise. We apply a robust optimization approach in which all agents view volatility uncertainty as an adversarial player. Based on the principle of person-by-person optimality and a two-step-duality technique for stochastic variational analysis, we construct an auxiliary optimal control problem for a representative agent. Through solving this problem combined with a consistent mean field approximation, we design a set of decentralized strategies, which are further shown to be asymptotically social optimal by perturbation analysis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE