Risk-sensitive Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions and Financial Applications: Fully Coupled Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with Jump diffusion
Rania Khallout, Adel Chala

TL;DR
This paper develops necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for risk-sensitive control problems involving fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps, with applications to financial models like mean-variance in cash flow markets.
Contribution
It introduces new optimality conditions for risk-sensitive control in complex stochastic systems with jumps, extending previous work to more realistic financial models.
Findings
Established necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for the control problem.
Applied the theoretical results to a mean-variance risk-sensitive control example.
Demonstrated the existence of optimal solutions under convex control constraints.
Abstract
Throughout this paper, we focused our aim on the problem of optimal control under a risk-sensitive performance functional, where the system is given by a fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation with jump. The risk neutral control system has been used as preliminary step, where the admissible controls are convex, and the optimal solution exists. The necessary as well as sufficient optimality conditions for risk-sensitive performance are proved. At the end of this work, we illustrate our main result by giving an example of mean-variance for risk sensitive control problem applied in cash flow market.
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Risk-sensitive Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions and Financial
Applications:
Fully Coupled Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with Jump diffusion
**Rania KHALLOUTa† and Adel CHALAa‡
**a) Laboratory of Applied Mathematics.
Mohamed Khider University.
P.O. Box 145, Biskra 07000. Algeria
E-mail: [email protected].
E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract
Throughout this paper, we focused our aim on the problem of optimal control under a risk-sensitive performance functional, where the system is given by a fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation with jump. The risk neutral control system has been used as preliminary step, where the admissible controls are convex, and the optimal solution exists. The necessary as well as sufficient optimality conditions for risk-sensitive performance are proved. At the end of this work, we illustrate our main result by giving an example of mean-variance for risk sensitive control problem applied in cash flow market.
**Key words: **Fully Coupled Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equation with Jump, Risk-sensitive, Necessary Optimality Conditions, Sufficient Optimality Conditions, Logarithmic Transformation, Mean variance, Cash flow.
1 Introduction
Maximum principle for controlled stochastic differential equations (SDE in short), whose objective is to obtain necessary as well as sufficient optimality conditions of controls, has been extensively investigated since 1970s. The initial work was done by Kushner [19]. The other fundamental advance was developed by Haussmann [17, 18]. Versions of the stochastic maximum principle ( SMP in short), in which the diffusion coefficient is allowed to depend explicitly on the control variable, have been derived by Arkin & Saksonov [2], Bensoussan [3], and Bismut [4, 5, 6]. The results of [2] and [4, 5, 6] consider the case of random coefficients. Necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for linear systems with random coefficients, where no -bounds are imposed on the controls, are established by Cadellinas and Karatzas [9]. The general case, where the control domain is not convex, and the diffusion coefficient depends explicitly on the variable control, was derived by Peng [23] by introducing two adjoint processes, and a variational inequality of the second order. Recently, by considering risk sensitive performance control with an exponential functional cost, Djehiche et al [14] generalized the previous results on the subject, and derive necessary optimality conditions, by adding the mean field process.
The initial works on optimal control of jump processes was first considered by Boel [7, 8], Rishel [25]. Later, many authors studied this kind of control problems including Situ [26], Cadellinas [10], and Framstad Øksendal & Sulem [16]. We note that in [10] and [16], some applications in finance are treated. The general case, where the control domain is not convex and the diffusion coefficient depends explicitly on the control variable, was derived by Tang and Li [31], by using the second order expansion, the results of [31] are given with two adjoint processes and a variational inequality of the second order. For more details on the controlled systems with jumps and their applications, see Øksendal and Sulem [22] and the references therein.
The purpose of this paper is to generalize the model governed with SDE and BSDE, before that we must give this motivation example which has taken from the thesis of Armerin [1].
Modeling and controlling cash flow processes of a firm or a project, such as pricing and managing an insurance contract, is a class of problems where forward backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs in short) provide a natural setup and a powerful tool. In this paper, we shall investigate an example of such a situation arising in the pricing of a simple insurance contract.
A policyholder at an insurance company has paid premiums that at time zero have accumulated to the sum . The money is invested in an asset portfolio with wealth managed by the insurance company under a time interval . At each instant , the policyholder ought to receive an amount . The present value (price) of the cash stream , discounted to time with a discount factor (deflator) , where is assumed nonnegative, bounded, and deterministic, is given by
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Assume that the portfolio is invested in a simple Black-Scholes market model consisting of a risk-free asset (for example, a bond or a bank account) with a short interest rate assumed bounded and deterministic, and a risky asset evolving as a geometric Brownian motion with rate of return and volatility , both assumed to be bounded and deterministic functions of time, with for all . In this market the wealth process is governed by the dynamics given by
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where is the amount invested in the risky asset and is the risk premium held for this investment.
The insurance company allocates the amounts in order to come close to the following target at time : Find the admissible strategies which maximize the policyholder’s preferences represented by the utility function of the cash streams, under the condition that the total amount to be paid out is equal to the total premium :
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By selecting an appropriate portfolio choice strategy where the exponent is called the risk sensitive parameter. Assume that the policyholder’s utility function is of HARA (hyperbolic absolute risk aversion) type. That is, , where . We can rewrite the expectation in terms of an expected exponential of integral criterion, by applying Itô’s formula to we get
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where
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and
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is the total value of the stream of cash flows discounted to time zero.
We need the following definition of admissible strategies suitable for our problem.
Definition 1.1
An admissible strategy is a pair of -adapted processes such that has a strong solution that satisfies
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and
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Now, for each admissible strategy , the -adapted value process in satisfies the following BSDE:
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where is -adapted and square-integrable with respect to over
Hence, and satisfied by is a FBSDE, in the next step we want to improve this notion of cash flow problem into a system of fully coupled FBSDE with jump diffusion, as the best of our acknowledge, this is not a simple or trivial extension, because of we have a lot of work to do. Firstly the function minimize has the form an expected exponential, secondly the problem of control governed by a fully coupled FBSDE with jump diffusion as in system is very hard to solve it especially if we want to derive the stochastic maximum principle (Lemma and LABEL:SOC below.
Our aim in this paper is to derive necessary as well as sufficient optimality conditions for jump process, controlled diffusion and generator for the system driven by a fully coupled forward backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE in short) under a risk sensitive performance. We give the results, in the form of global SMP, by using an auxiliary process as a preliminary step see the section 3 below.
In the risk sensitive performance case, the system is governed by a FBSDE with jump diffusion
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where and are given functions, is the initial data, is terminal data, and is a standard Brownian motion defined on a filtered probability space , satisfying the usual conditions, and is a Poisson martingale measure with characteristic
The control variable , called strict control, is an -adapted process with values in some set of . We denote by the class of all strict admissible controls. The criteria to be minimized over has the form
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where and are given maps and is the trajectories controlled by
A control is called optimal if it satisfies
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To achieve the objective of this paper, and establish the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions, the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control which minimize the functional cost is proved, we proceed as follows. Firstly, we give the optimality conditions for risk neutral controls. The idea is to use the fact that the auxiliary state process is the best intermediate step to translate the system of forward backward SDE into three equations see in section 3. Secondly, we suggest a transformation of the adjoint equations and into following adjoint equations and by applying the result obtained by both Yong [32] and Wu [34], but with some additional ideas, we use this transformation and virtue of the logarithm transformed introduced by El Karoui & Hamadene [15] to solve this problem and driven the necessary as well as sufficient optimality conditions of the type risk sensitive performance.
The results of this paper generalize all the previous works on the subject, into FBSDE with jumps diffusion under the risk sensitive performance. we combine between two important results the first one was such of Djehiche et al [14], while the second was Chala [11, 12], for more details for the risk sensitive the readers can see the papers [29, 30] and references of therein.
The paper is organized as follows: In section 2, we give the precise problem formulations, and introduce the risk-sensitive model, and give the various assumptions used throughout this paper. In section 3, we shall study our system of fully coupled forward backward SDE, the new approach method transformation of the adjoint process is given and studied, SMP for risk-neutral is given, which will be the main result in next section, we give our first main result, the necessary optimality conditions for risk-sensitive control problem under an additional hypothesis is established. In section 4, The sufficient optimality conditions for risk-sensitive performance cost is our second main result, is obtained under the convexity of the Hamiltonian function. In section 5, we finished the paper by given an application, a financial model of mean variance with risk-sensitive performance functional is the best application for our problem. The conclusion and remarks is the last section (section 6).
2 Problem and settings
In all what follows, we will be worked on the classical probability space such that contains all the null sets, for an arbitrarily fixed time horizon , and satisfies the usual conditions. We assume that the filtration is generated by the following two mutually independent processes
- (i)
is a one-dimensional standard Brownian motion. 2. (ii)
Poisson random measure on where We denote by ( resp. ) the augmentation of the natural filtration of ( resp. ). Obviously, we have
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where contains all null sets in , and denotes the field generated by We assume that the compensator of has the form for some positive and finite Lévy measure on endowed with its Borel field We suppose that and write for the compensated jump martingale random measure of
Notation 2.1
We need to define some additional notations. Given let us introduce the following spaces
* the set of - valued adapted cadlàg processes such that*
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* is the set of progressively measurable valued processes such that*
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* is the set of measurable maps such that*
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we denote by the expectation with respect to
Let be a strictly positive real number and is a convex nonempty subset of
Definition 2.1
Let be a nonempty closed subset in An admissible control is a valued measurable adapted process such that We denote by the set of all admissible controls
For all , we consider the following fully coupled forward-backward with jump system
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where , and are given maps. If is the unique solution of associated with .
The functional cost of the risk-sensitive type is given by
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where are given maps, and is called the risk-sensitive parameter.
Our risk-sensitive stochastic optimal control problem is stated as follows: For given minimize subject to over
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A control that solves the problem is called optimal. Our goal is to establish a necessary optimality conditions as well as a sufficient optimality conditions, satisfied by a given optimal control, in the form of stochastic maximum principle (SMP in short).
We give some notations , where denotes the transport of the matrix,
and M\left(t,\Upsilon\right)=\left(\begin{tabular}[c]{c}b\sigma-g\end{tabular}\ \right)\left(t,\Upsilon\right).
We introduce the following assumptions.
For each , is an measurable process defined on with
satisfies Lipschitz conditions There exists a constant such that
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The following monotonic conditions introduced in [34], are the main assumptions in this paper.
for every and, where is a positive constant.** **
is a convex subset of
Proposition 2.1
For any given admissible control and under the assumptions , and , the fully coupled FBSDE with jump diffusion \left(\ref{EQ}\right)\admits an unique solution
**
Proof. The proof can be seen in [34].
Next, we assume that
and are continuously differentiable with respect to
All the derivatives of and are bounded by
The derivatives of are bounded by and respectively.
Under the above assumptions, for every equation has a unique strong solution and the function cost is well defined from into .
3 Necessary optimality conditions and auxiliary process
First of all, we may introduce an auxiliary state process which is solution of the following stochastic differential equation (SDE in short):
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From the above auxiliary process, the fully coupled forward-backward type control problem is equivalent to
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We denote by
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and we can put also
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the risk-sensitive loss functional is given by
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When the risk-sensitive index is small, the functional can be expanded as where, denotes the variance of If the variance of as a measure of risk, improves the performance , in which case the optimizer is called *risk seeker. But, when the variance of worsens the performance , in which case the optimizer is called risk averse. The risk-neutral loss functional * can be seen as a limit of risk-sensitive functional when , for more details the reader can see the papers
Notation 3.1
*We will use the following notation throughout this paper.
For , we define*
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and it means that the function is càdlag.
Where in an admissible control from .
We assume that , and hold, we might apply the SMP for risk-neutral of fully coupled forward-backward type control from Yong to augmented state dynamics and derive the adjoint equation. There exist unique adapted of processes which solve the following system matrix of backward SDEs
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with and
q_{3}\left(t\right)=-Tr\left[\left(\begin{array}[c]{cc}f_{z}\left(t\right)&b_{z}\left(t\right)\\ \sigma_{z}\left(t\right)&g_{z}\left(t\right)\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}[c]{cc}p_{1}\left(t\right)&q_{2}\left(t\right)\\ p_{2}\left(t\right)&p_{3}\left(t\right)\end{array}\right)\right]+{\displaystyle\int_{\Gamma}}\gamma_{z}\left(t-,\lambda\right)\pi_{2}\left(t,\lambda\right)m\left(d\lambda\right),
\pi_{3}\left(t,\lambda\right)=-Tr\left[\left(\begin{array}[c]{cc}f_{r}\left(t\right)&b_{r}\left(t\right)\\ \sigma_{r}\left(t\right)&g_{r}\left(t\right)\end{array}\right)\left(\begin{array}[c]{cc}p_{1}\left(t\right)&q_{2}\left(t\right)\\ p_{2}\left(t\right)&p_{3}\left(t\right)\end{array}\right)\right]+{\displaystyle\int_{\Gamma}}\gamma_{r}\left(t-,\lambda\right)\pi_{2}\left(t,\lambda\right)m\left(d\lambda\right).
To this end we may define in the compact form as
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where
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and
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We suppose here that be the Hamiltonian associated with the optimal state dynamics and the triplet of adjoint processes is given by
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Theorem 3.1
Assume that , and hold.
If is an optimal solution of the risk-neutral control problem then there exist adapted processes
* that satisfy such that*
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for all almost every and almost surely, where is defined in notation .
Proof. For more details the reader can see paper [32] with the result of paper
3.1 Expected Exponential Utility
The expected exponential utility can be transformed into quadratic BSDE, this Backward stochastic differential equation it permets us to find an other way to resoudre the problem of adjoint equation which play a good rule in the component of the Hamiltonian function.
As we said, Theorem 3.1 is a good SMP for the risk-neutral of forward backward control problem. We follow the same approach used in and suggest a transformation of the adjoint processes in such a way to omit the first component in and to obtain the SMP in terms of only the last two adjoint processes, that we denote them by . Noting that and the explicit solution of this backward SDE is
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where
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As a good look of it would be natural to choose a transformation of instead of , where
We consider the following transform
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By using and we have
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The following properties of the generic martingale are essential in order to investigate the properties of these new processes
In this part, we want to prove the relationship between the exponential utility and the backward quadratic stochastic equation. First of all, it’s very important to write the expected exponential utility under this form
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For more details about the Expected exponential utility optimization, the reader can visits the papers [Dahl] and
Lemma 3.1
The necessary and sufficient condition for the expected exponential utility is the backward quadratic stochastic equation
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where
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Proof. We assume that holds, the we get
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By using of martingale representation theorem, there exist a process square integrable with respect to norm and the process in the space puting we get
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By applying Lévy-Ito’s formula to , we get
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Hence,
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Then, by replacing in we have the backward quadratic as the following expression
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where,
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As is proved in lemma the process is the first component of the adapted pair of processes which is the unique solution to the quadratic backward SDE with jump diffusion .
Lemma 3.2
Suppose that holds. Then
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In particular, solves the following linear backward SDE
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Hence, the process defined on by
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is a uniformly bounded martingale.
Proof. First we prove We assume that holds, and are bounded by a constant we have
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Therefore, is a uniformly bounded martingale satisfying
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The complete proof see the Lemma 3.1 page 405 [11].
In the next, we will state and prove the necessary optimality conditions for the system driven by fully coupled FBSDE with jumps diffusion with a risk sensitive performance functional type. To this end, let us summarize and prove some lemmas that we will use thereafter.
Lemma 3.3
*The second and the third risk-sensitive adjoint equations of the solution
and become*
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The solution of the system is unique, such that
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where
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Proof. We want to identify the processes and such that
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By applying Itô’s formula to the process and using the expression of in we obtain
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By identifying the coefficients, and using the relation the diffusion coefficient will be
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the drift term of the process
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the jump diffusion gets the form
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Finally, we obtain
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It is easily verified that
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In view of we may use Girsanov’s Theorem to claim that
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where,
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is a Brownian motion and is a compensator Poisson measure, where,
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But according to and the probability measures and are in fact equivalent. Hence, noting that is square-integrable, we get that
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Thus, its quadratic variation This implies that, for almost every and a.s. Now we use the relations
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and
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in the equation above, to obtain
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Therefore, the second and third components of and in are given by
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and
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or in equivalent expression the adjoint equations for and become
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The solution of the system is unique, such that
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where
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The proof is completed.
Theorem 3.2
(Risk-Sensitive necessary optimality conditions): We assume that holds, if is an optimal solution of the risk-sensitive control problem , then there exist -adapted processes and that satisfy such that
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for all , almost every and -almost surely.
Proof. The Hamiltonian associated with is given by
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and is the risk-sensitive Hamiltonian given by To arrive at a risk-sensitive stochastic maximum principle expressed in terms of the adjoint processes and , which solve . Hence, since the variational inequality translates into for all , almost every and -almost surely.
4 Risk sensitive sufficient optimality conditions
This section is concerned with a study of the necessary condition of optimality when it becomes sufficient.
Theorem 4.1
(Risk sensitive sufficient optimality conditions)Assume that and are convex and for all the function is convex, and for any such that Then, is an optimal control of the problem , if it satisfies .
Proof. Let be an admissible control (candidate to be optimal) for any , we have
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Since and are convex, and applying Taylor’s expansion, we get
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According to , we remark that , and then
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We apply Itô’s formula to ,
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then
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We apply expectation, we get
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And we apply also Itô’s formula to
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then
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We apply expectation, we get
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We apply also Itô’s formula to
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then
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We apply expectation, We get
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By replacing , and into we have
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Since the Hamiltonian is concave with respect to , we have
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Then
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In virtue of the necessary condition of optimality the last inequality implies that Then, the theorem is improved.
5 Example: Mean-Variance (Cash-flow):
Now we return to the problem of optimal portfolio stated in the motivating example, and apply the risk sensitive necessary optimality condition (Theorem 3.2).
Our state dynamics is
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and
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The cost functional is
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where is the neutral cost functional given by the following expected with an exponential form see section 1.2.3
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Where . The investor wants to minimize subject to and by taking over , the mean–variance portfolio selection problem is to find which minimize
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The Hamiltonian function gets the form
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Then, to get the optimal control, the derivative of the above Hamiltonian with respect to the control process gives us
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Let be an optimal pair, the adjoint equation is given by
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By using of we get
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Therefore, an optimal solution can be obtained by solving the system FBSDE with jumps diffusion and unfortunately, in such system is difficult to find the explicit solution, to this end we use the similar technique as in [33] see also [32], we conjecture the solution to and is related by
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for some deterministic differentiable functions and Applying Itô’s formula to we get
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On the other hand, by substituting into and denote by
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By using the Girsanov’s transformation in as in section 2 lemma , we obtain
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By equating the coefficients and the final conditions of with we have
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By identifying with we can rewrite
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and
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then replacing the both equations , and the last equations of and into , we have,
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then we get,
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where
In the other side, we have from and Then
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From and , we have
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and
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Then the explicit solutions of and have the form
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Remark 5.1
It’s very important to remark that the solution of the function in the form is depend to the solution of If we put for smooth deterministic functions and by using the similar technique as an optimal solution in the last paragraph, to the triplet . Then the solutions of and yield respectively the equations
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The main result in this section, can be given in the form of maximum principle of mean variance problem with risk sensitive performance.
Theorem 5.1
We assume that the pair has unique solution given by , the pair has also the explicit solution of the system . Then the optimal control of the problem , and has the state feedback form
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6 Conclusion and Remarks:
This paper contains two main results. The first one, Theorem LABEL:NOC, establishes the necessary optimality conditions for the system of fully coupled FBSDE with risk sensitive performance, using an almost similar scheme as in Chala [11, 14]. The second main result, Theorem LABEL:SOC, suggests sufficient optimality conditions of fully coupled FBSDE given in form of risk sensitive performance., we note here that our paper is the second extension of result of Chala [12] The proof is based on the convexity conditions of the Hamiltonian function, the initial and terminal terms of the performance function. It should be noted that the risk sensitive control problems studied by Lim and Zhou in [20] are different from ours. Our results can be compared with maximum principle obtained by Shi and Wu [29], but we have to be able to discuss the generale case -if we add the jumps diffusion term to our system-. This result it will be discussed in our next paper. On the other hand, in the case where the system is governed by mean field type we may take the existing paper established by Djechiche et al [14]. We have generalized this last result into the fully coupled stochastic differential equation which is motivated by an optimal portfolio choice problem in financial market specially the model of control cash flow of a firm or project for example we can setting the model of pricing and managing an insurance contract, this counterpart without mean field term as in [14], A problem to be thoroughly addressed in our future paper, where the system is governed by fully coupled stochastic differential equation of mean field type, and will be compared with [21]. Remarkably, the maximum principle of risk-neutral obtained by Wu [34], and Yong [32] is quite similar to our theorem 3.1, but their adjoint equation and maximum conditions heavily depend on the risk sensitive parameter.
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