SINGULAR CONTROL OPTIMAL STOPPING OF MEMORY MEAN-FIELD PROCESSES.

The purpose of this paper is to study the following topics and the relation between them: (i) Optimal singular control of mean-field stochastic differential equations with memory; (ii) reected advanced mean-field backward stochastic differential equations; and (iii) optimal stopping of mean-field stochastic differential equations. More specifically, we do the following: (1) We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of some reected advanced memory backward stochastic differential equations; (2) we give sufficient and necessary conditions for an optimal singular control of a memory mean-field stochastic differential equation (MMSDE) with partial information; and (3) we deduce a relation between the optimal singular control of an MMSDE and the optimal stopping of such processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]