A NONRANDOM VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO STOCHASTIC LINEAR QUADRATIC GAUSSIAN OPTIMIZATION INVOLVING FRACTIONAL NOISES (FLQG)

It is shown that the problem of minimizing (maximizing) a quadratic cost functional (quadratic gain functional) given the dynamics dx = (fx + gu)dt + hdb(t, a) where b(t, a) is a fractional Brownian motion of order a, 0 < 2a < 1, can be solved completely (and meaningfully!) by using the dynamical equations of the moments of x(t). The key is to use fractional Taylor's series to obtain a relation between differential and differential of fractional order.