Robust Incentive Stackelberg Mean Field Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Differential Game with Model Uncertainty

Abstract: This paper investigates a robust incentive Stackelberg stochastic differential game problem for a linear-quadratic mean field system, where the model uncertainty appears in the drift term of the leader's state equation. Moreover, both the state average and control averages enter into the leader's dynamics and cost functional. Based on the zero-sum game approach, mean field approximation and duality theory, firstly the representation of the leader's limiting cost functional and the closed-loop representation of decentralized open-loop saddle points are given, via decoupling methods. Then by convex analysis and the variational method, the decentralized strategies of the followers' auxiliary limiting problems and the corresponding consistency condition system are derived. Finally, applying decoupling technique, the leader's approximate incentive strategy set is obtained, under which the asymptotical robust incentive optimality of the decentralized mean field strategy is verified. A numerical example is given to illustrate the theoretical results.