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Regularity for Weak Solutions to First-Order Local Mean Field Games

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-24 v2

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 H(x,Du,m)=0H(x, Du, m) = 0 and a transport equation div(mDpH(x,Du,m))=0-\operatorname{div}(m D_pH(x, Du, m)) = 0 in a domain ΩRd\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d. Under suitable structural assumptions on the Hamiltonian HH, without requiring monotonicity of the system, convexity of the Hamiltonian, separability in variables, or smoothness beyond basic continuity in (p,m)(p,m), 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 uu is locally H\"older continuous in Ω\Omega. 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

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