Stochastic control problems with state-reflections arising from relaxed benchmark tracking

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Auteurs principaux: Bo, Lijun, Huang, Yijie, Yu, Xiang
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author Bo, Lijun
Huang, Yijie
Yu, Xiang
author_facet Bo, Lijun
Huang, Yijie
Yu, Xiang
contents This paper studies stochastic control problems motivated by optimal consumption with wealth benchmark tracking. The benchmark process is modeled by a combination of a geometric Brownian motion and a running maximum process, indicating its increasing trend in the long run. We consider a relaxed tracking formulation such that the wealth compensated by the injected capital always dominates the benchmark process. The stochastic control problem is to maximize the expected utility of consumption deducted by the cost of the capital injection under the dynamic floor constraint. By introducing two auxiliary state processes with reflections, an equivalent auxiliary control problem is formulated and studied, which leads to the HJB equation with two Neumann boundary conditions. We establish the existence of a unique classical solution to the dual PDE using some novel probabilistic representations involving the local time of some dual processes together with a tailor-made decomposition-homogenization technique. The proof of the verification theorem on the optimal feedback control can be carried out by some stochastic flow analysis and technical estimations of the optimal control.
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spellingShingle Stochastic control problems with state-reflections arising from relaxed benchmark tracking
Bo, Lijun
Huang, Yijie
Yu, Xiang
Optimization and Control
Mathematical Finance
This paper studies stochastic control problems motivated by optimal consumption with wealth benchmark tracking. The benchmark process is modeled by a combination of a geometric Brownian motion and a running maximum process, indicating its increasing trend in the long run. We consider a relaxed tracking formulation such that the wealth compensated by the injected capital always dominates the benchmark process. The stochastic control problem is to maximize the expected utility of consumption deducted by the cost of the capital injection under the dynamic floor constraint. By introducing two auxiliary state processes with reflections, an equivalent auxiliary control problem is formulated and studied, which leads to the HJB equation with two Neumann boundary conditions. We establish the existence of a unique classical solution to the dual PDE using some novel probabilistic representations involving the local time of some dual processes together with a tailor-made decomposition-homogenization technique. The proof of the verification theorem on the optimal feedback control can be carried out by some stochastic flow analysis and technical estimations of the optimal control.
title Stochastic control problems with state-reflections arising from relaxed benchmark tracking
topic Optimization and Control
Mathematical Finance
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08302