Stochastic maximum principle for moving average control system

Abstract In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problem for moving average control system. The corresponding moving average stochastic differential equation is a kind of integral differential equations. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the moving average stochastic differential equations. We obtain the stochastic maximum principle of the moving average optimal control system by introducing a kind of generalized anticipated backward stochastic differential equations. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution of this adjoint equation, which is singular at 0. As an application, the linear quadratic moving average control problem is investigated to illustrate the main results.