Conditional McKean-Vlasov control

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Main Authors: Carmona, René, Tangpi, Ludovic, Zhang, Kaiwen
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author Carmona, René
Tangpi, Ludovic
Zhang, Kaiwen
author_facet Carmona, René
Tangpi, Ludovic
Zhang, Kaiwen
contents Conditional McKean-Vlasov control problems involve controlling McKean-Vlasov diffusions where the interaction occurs through the law of the state process conditionally on it staying in a domain. Introduced by Lions in his 2016 lectures at the Collège de France, these problems have notable applications, particularly in systemic risk. We establish well-posedness and provide a general characterization of optimal controls using a new Pontryagin maximum principle in the probabilistic weak formulation. Unlike the classical approach based on forward-backward systems, our results connect the control problem to a generalized McKean-Vlasov backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). We illustrate our framework with two applications: a version of the Schrödinger problem with killing, and a construction of equilibria in potential mean field games via McKean-Vlasov control.
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spellingShingle Conditional McKean-Vlasov control
Carmona, René
Tangpi, Ludovic
Zhang, Kaiwen
Probability
Optimization and Control
Conditional McKean-Vlasov control problems involve controlling McKean-Vlasov diffusions where the interaction occurs through the law of the state process conditionally on it staying in a domain. Introduced by Lions in his 2016 lectures at the Collège de France, these problems have notable applications, particularly in systemic risk. We establish well-posedness and provide a general characterization of optimal controls using a new Pontryagin maximum principle in the probabilistic weak formulation. Unlike the classical approach based on forward-backward systems, our results connect the control problem to a generalized McKean-Vlasov backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE). We illustrate our framework with two applications: a version of the Schrödinger problem with killing, and a construction of equilibria in potential mean field games via McKean-Vlasov control.
title Conditional McKean-Vlasov control
topic Probability
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06543