Regularity for Weak Solutions to First-Order Local Mean Field Games
Abstract
We establish interior regularity results for first-order, stationary, local mean-field game (MFG) systems. Specifically, we study solutions of the coupled system consisting of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and a transport equation in a domain . Under suitable structural assumptions on the Hamiltonian , without requiring monotonicity of the system, convexity of the Hamiltonian, separability in variables, or smoothness beyond basic continuity in , we introduce a notion of weak solutions that allows the application of techniques from elliptic regularity theory. Our main contribution is to prove that the value function is locally H\"older continuous in . The proof leverages the connection between first-order MFG systems and quasilinear equations in divergence form, adapting classical techniques to handle the specific structure of MFG systems.
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@article{arxiv.2411.15174,
title = {Regularity for Weak Solutions to First-Order Local Mean Field Games},
author = {Abdulrahman Alharbi and Diogo Gomes and Giuseppe Di Fazio and Melih Ucer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15174},
year = {2025}
}
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25 pages