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The planning problem in Mean Field Games as regularized mass transport

Analysis of PDEs 2019-05-21 v3 Optimization and Control

Abstract

In this paper, using variational approaches, we investigate the first order planning problem arising in the theory of mean field games. We show the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the problem in the case of a large class of Hamiltonians with arbitrary superlinear order of growth at infinity and local coupling functions. We require the initial and final measures to be merely summable. At the same time (relying on the techniques developed recently by Graber and M\'esz\'aros), under stronger monotonicity and convexity conditions on the data, we obtain Sobolev estimates on the solutions of the planning problem both for space and time derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.1811.02706,
  title  = {The planning problem in Mean Field Games as regularized mass transport},
  author = {P. Jameson Graber and Alpár R. Mészáros and Francisco J. Silva and Daniela Tonon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.02706},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

to appear in Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations; Section 3 from the previous version removed upon the suggestion of the referee

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