Well-posedness and regularity of backward stochastic Volterra integral equations

Abstract

Backward stochastic Volterra integral equations (BSVIEs, for short) are studied. Notion of adapted M-solution is introduced. Well-posedness of BSVIEs is established and some regularity results are proved for the adapted M-solutions via Malliavin calculus. A Pontryagin type maximum principle is presented for optimal controls of stochastic Volterra integral equations. © 2007 Springer-Verlag.