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March  2021, 11(1): 47-71. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2020026

Mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems: Weak closed-loop solvability

Jingrui Sun 1, and  Hanxiao Wang 2,,

1. 

Department of Mathematics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Guangdong 518055, China
2. 

School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

* Corresponding author: Hanxiao Wang

Received  June 2019 Revised  January 2020 Published  March 2021 Early access  June 2020

Fund Project: The first author is supported by NSFC Grant 11901280

This paper is concerned with mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic (MF-SLQ, for short) optimal control problems with deterministic coefficients. The notion of weak closed-loop optimal strategy is introduced. It is shown that the open-loop solvability is equivalent to the existence of a weak closed-loop optimal strategy. Moreover, when open-loop optimal controls exist, there is at least one of them admitting a state feedback representation, which is the outcome of a weak closed-loop optimal strategy. Finally, an example is presented to illustrate the procedure for finding weak closed-loop optimal strategies.

Keywords: Mean-field stochastic differential equation, linear-quadratic optimal control, open-loop solvability, weak closed-loop solvability, state feedback.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 93E20; Secondary: 49N10, 49N35.
Citation: Jingrui Sun, Hanxiao Wang. Mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems: Weak closed-loop solvability. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, 2021, 11 (1) : 47-71. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2020026
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