Maximum principle for a stochastic delayed system involving terminal state constraints

J Inequal Appl. 2017;2017(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s13660-017-1378-z. Epub 2017 May 5.

Abstract

We investigate a stochastic optimal control problem where the controlled system is depicted as a stochastic differential delayed equation; however, at the terminal time, the state is constrained in a convex set. We firstly introduce an equivalent backward delayed system depicted as a time-delayed backward stochastic differential equation. Then a stochastic maximum principle is obtained by virtue of Ekeland's variational principle. Finally, applications to a state constrained stochastic delayed linear-quadratic control model and a production-consumption choice problem are studied to illustrate the main obtained result.

Keywords: maximum principle; state constraints; stochastic differential delayed equation.