The Relaxed Stochastic Maximum Principle in Singular Optimal Control of Jump Diffusions

This paper deals with optimal control of systems driven by stochastic differential equations (SDEs), with controlled jumps, where the control variable has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. We study the corresponding relaxed-singular problem, in which the first part of the admissible control is a measure-valued process and the state variable is governed by a SDE driven by a relaxed Poisson random measure, whose compensator is a product measure. We establish a stochastic maximum principle for this type of relaxed control problems extending existing results. The proofs are based on Ekeland’s variational principle and stability properties of the state process and adjoint variable with respect to the control variable.