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We investigate in this work a fully-discrete semi-Lagrangian approximation of second order possibly degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on a bounded domain with oblique boundary conditions. These equations appear naturally in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Elisa Calzola , Elisabetta Carlini , Xavier Dupuis , Francisco J. Silva

An alternate Lagrangian scheme at discrete times is proposed for the approximation of a nonlinear continuity equation arising as a mean-field limit of spatially inhomogeneous evolutionary games, describing the evolution of a system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

We consider Monte-Carlo discretizations of partial differential equations based on a combination of semi-lagrangian schemes and probabilistic representations of the solutions. We study the Monte-Carlo error in a simple case, and show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Erwan Faou

We consider a semi-Lagrangian scheme for solving the minimum time problem, with a given target, and the associated eikonal type equation. We first use a discrete time deterministic optimal control problem interpretation of the time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Marianne Akian , Shanqing Liu

We study convergence rates of the generalized conditional gradient (GCG) method applied to fully discretized Mean Field Games (MFG) systems. While explicit convergence rates of the GCG method have been established at the continuous PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Haruka Nakamura , Norikazu Saito

For linear and fully non-linear diffusion equations of Bellman-Isaacs type, we introduce a class of approximation schemes based on differencing and interpolation. As opposed to classical numerical methods, these schemes work for general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Kristian Debrabant , Espen R. Jakobsen

In this expository article, we give an overview of the concept of potential mean field games of first order. We give a new proof that minimizers of the potential are equilibria by using a Lagrangian formulation. We also provide criteria to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 P. Jameson Graber

We derive a priori error estimates for semidiscrete finite element approximations of stable solutions to time-dependent mean field game systems with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Expressing solutions to the MFG system as zeros of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Jules Berry

We consider Mean Field Games without idiosyncratic but with Brownian type common noise. We introduce a notion of solutions of the associated backward-forward system of stochastic partial differential equations. We show that the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis

A fully discrete Lagrangian scheme for numerical solution of the nonlinear fourth order DLSS equation in one space dimension is analyzed. The discretization is based on the equation's gradient flow structure in the $L^2$-Wasserstein metric.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-08 Daniel Matthes , Horst Osberger

We prove that solutions to a class of Mean Field Game systems with discount are unique provided that the discount factor is large enough, and the Lagrangian term is (proportionally) small enough. This identifies an asymptotic uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Marco Cirant , Elisa Continelli

We show the existence of "mild solutions" for a first-order mean field game of controls under the state constraint that trajectories be confined in a closed and bounded set in euclidean space. This extends the results of Cannarsa and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Jameson Graber , Sergio Mayorga

The paper is devoted to the first-order mean field game system in the case when the distribution of players can contain atoms. The proposed definition of a generalized solution is based on the minimax approach to the Hamilton-Jacobi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Yurii Averboukh

We analyze a fractional mean field game of controls system, showing existence of solutions when the order of the fractional Laplacian is $s\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$. Here the running cost depends on the distribution $\mu$ of not only the states…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 P. Jameson Graber , Elizabeth Matter , Jesus Ruiz Bolanos

We use the Markov chain approximation method to construct approximations for the solution of the mean field game (MFG) with reflecting barriers studied in Bayraktar, Budhiraja, and Cohen (2017). The MFG is formulated in terms of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Erhan Bayraktar , Amarjit Budhiraja , Asaf Cohen

Mean field type models describing the limiting behavior of stochastic differential games as the number of players tends to +$\infty$, have been recently introduced by J-M. Lasry and P-L. Lions. Under suitable assumptions, they lead to a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Yves Achdou , Alessio Porretta

In this paper, we consider a mean field game (MFG) model perturbed by small common noise. Our goal is to give an approximation of the Nash equilibrium strategy of this game using a solution from the original no common noise MFG whose…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Saran Ahuja , Weiluo Ren , Tzu-Wei Yang

We propose a second order, fully semi-Lagrangian method for the numerical solution of systems of advection-diffusion-reaction equations, which employs a semi-Lagrangian approach to approximate in time both the advective and the diffusive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Luca Bonaventura , Elisabetta Carlini , Elisa Calzola , Roberto Ferretti

We study the numerical approximation of time-dependent, possibly degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in bounded domains with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is well known that convergence towards the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Elisabetta Carlini , Athena Picarelli , Francisco J. Silva

This paper is devoted to finite horizon deterministic mean field games in which the state space is a network. The agents control their velocity, and when they occupy a vertex, they can enter into any incident edge. The running and terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Yves Achdou , Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou