Abstract

We treat Linear-Quadratic control problems for a class of stochastic Volterra equations of convolution type. These equations are in general neither Markovian nor semimartingales, and include the fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index smaller than 1/2 as a special case. We prove that the value function is of linear quadratic form with a linear optimal feedback control, depending on non-standard infinite dimensional Riccati equations, for which we provide generic existence and uniqueness results. Furthermore, we show that the stochastic Volterra optimization problem can be approximated by conventional finite dimensional Markovian Linear Quadratic problems, which is of crucial importance for numerical implementation.

Joint work with Enzo Miller and Huyên Pham.

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