Lü, Qi; Zhang, Xu General Pontryagin-type stochastic maximum principle and backward stochastic evolution equations in infinite dimensions. (English) Zbl 1316.49004 SpringerBriefs in Mathematics; BCAM SpringerBriefs. Cham: Springer; Bilbao: BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (ISBN 978-3-319-06631-8/pbk; 978-3-319-06632-5/ebook). ix, 146 p. (2014). The author presents yet another stochastic version of the Pontryagin maximum principle (see e.g. [H. J. Kushner, SIAM J. Control 10, 550–565 (1972; Zbl 0242.93063)], [U. G. Haussmann, Stoch. Syst.: Model., Identif., Optim. II; Math. Program. Study 6, 30–48 (1976; Zbl 0369.93048)], [Y. Hu and S. Peng, Stochastics Stochastics Rep. 33, No. 3–4, 159–180 (1990; Zbl 0722.93080)]). In the book, a dynamical stochastic system is described by controlled stochastic evolution equations in which the control variables are present in the diffusion term. Moreover, the control domains may be nonconvex. By defining the so called relaxed transposition solution to the operator-valued backward stochastic evolution equations, the author is able to discuss well-posedness and regularity of such equations. It leads to some properties of the solution which in turn enable finding of necessary optimality conditions for controls in the case of convex control domains using convex perturbation techniques and finally in the case of general non-convex control domains using spline variation techniques. Unfortunately, the book is not endowed with any examples and therefore is very difficult to read. Reviewer: Andrzej Świerniak (Gliwice) Cited in 45 Documents MSC: 49-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control 49K45 Optimality conditions for problems involving randomness 49J55 Existence of optimal solutions to problems involving randomness 60H10 Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) 60H15 Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) 93E20 Optimal stochastic control Keywords:Pontryagin-type stochastic maximum principle; backward stochastic evolution equations Citations:Zbl 0242.93063; Zbl 0369.93048; Zbl 0722.93080 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{Q. Lü} and \textit{X. Zhang}, General Pontryagin-type stochastic maximum principle and backward stochastic evolution equations in infinite dimensions. Cham: Springer; Bilbao: BCAM -- Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (2014; Zbl 1316.49004) Full Text: DOI arXiv