Mean-field SDE driven by a fractional Brownian motion and related stochastic control problem

Abstract

We study a class of mean-field stochastic differential equations driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H\in (1/2,1)$ and a related stochastic control problem. We derive a Pontryagin type maximum principle and the associated adjoint mean-field backward stochastic differential equation driven by a classical Brownian motion, and we prove that under certain assumptions, which generalise the classical ones, the necessary condition for the optimality of an admissible control is also sufficient.

34 pages