文摘
We establish the existence of an optimal control for a system driven by a coupled forward–backward stochastic differential equation (FBDSE) whose diffusion coefficient may degenerate (i.e. are not necessary uniformly elliptic). The cost functional is defined as the initial value of the backward component of the solution. We construct a sequence of approximating controlled systems, for which we show the existence of a sequence of feedback optimal controls. By passing to the limit, we get the existence of a feedback optimal control. Filippov's convexity condition is used to ensure that the optimal control is strict. The present result extends those obtained in and to controlled systems of coupled SDE–BSDE.