A Global Maximum Principle for Controlled Conditional Mean-field FBSDEs with Regime Switching

Abstract: This paper is devoted to a global stochastic maximum principle for conditional mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs, for short) with regime switching. The control domain is unnecessarily convex and the driver of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs, for short) could depend on $Z$. Different from the case of non-recursive utility, the first-order and second-order adjoint equations are both high-dimensional linear BSDEs. Based on the adjoint equations, we reveal the relations among the terms of the first- and second-order Taylor's expansions. A general maximum principle is proved, which develops the work of Nguyen, Yin, and Nguyen [22] to recursive utility. As applications, the linear-quadratic problem is considered and a problem with state constraint is studied.