Linear Quadratic Gaussian Mean-Field Controls of Social Optima

Abstract: This paper investigates a class of unified stochastic linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) social optima problems involving a large number of weakly-coupled interactive agents under a {generalized} setting. For each individual agent, the control and state process enters both diffusion and drift terms in its linear dynamics, and the control weight might be \emph{indefinite} in cost functional. This setup is {innovative and has great theoretical and realistic significance} as its applications in mathematical finance {(e.g., portfolio selection in mean-variation model)}. Using some \emph{fully-coupled} variational analysis under person-by-person optimality principle, and mean-field approximation method, the decentralized social control is derived by a class of new type consistency condition (CC) system for typical representative agent. Such CC system is some mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equation (MF-FBSDE) combined with \emph{embedding representation}. The well-posedness of such forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) system is carefully examined. The related social asymptotic optimality is related to the convergence of the average of a series of weakly-coupled backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). They are verified through some Lyapunov equations.