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In this paper we study stochastic dynamic games with many players; these are a fundamental model for a wide range of economic applications. The standard solution concept for such games is Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE), but it is well…

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This paper studies a new class of linear-quadratic mean field games and teams problem, where the large-population system satisfies a class of $N$ weakly coupled linear backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs), and $z_i$ (a part of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Yu Si , Jingtao Shi

The objective of the present paper is to investigate the solution of fully coupled mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs in short) and to study the stochastic control problems of mean-field type as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-19 Ruimin Xu , Liangquan Zhang

This project investigates numerical methods for solving fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) of McKean-Vlasov type. Having numerical solvers for such mean field FBSDEs is of interest because of the…

In this work, we systematically investigate mean field games and mean field type control problems with multiple populations using a coupled system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations of McKean-Vlasov type stemming from…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Masaaki Fujii

We study a sequence of symmetric $n$-player stochastic differential games driven by both idiosyncratic and common sources of noise, in which players interact with each other through their empirical distribution. The unique Nash equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Francois Delarue , Daniel Lacker , Kavita Ramanan

The master equation is a type of PDE whose state variable involves the distribution of certain underlying state process. It is a powerful tool for studying the limit behavior of large interacting systems, including mean field games and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Cong Wu , Jianfeng Zhang

This paper provides a mathematical study of the well-posedness of master equation on finite state space involving terms modelling common noise. In this setting, the solution of the master equation depends on an additional variable modelling…

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Financial markets are often driven by latent factors which traders cannot observe. Here, we address an algorithmic trading problem with collections of heterogeneous agents who aim to perform optimal execution or statistical arbitrage, where…

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This paper studies a linear-quadratic mean-field game of stochastic large-population system, where the large-population system satisfies a class of $N$ weakly coupled linear backward stochastic differential equation. Different from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Yu Si , Jingtao Shi

Stochastic Master equations or quantum filtering equations for mixed states are well known objects in quantum physics. Building a mathematically rigorous theory of these equations in infinite-dimensional spaces is a long standing open…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Vassili N. Kolokoltsov

This paper presents recent results from Mean Field Game theory underlying the introduction of common noise that imposes to incorporate the distribution of the agents as a state variable. Starting from the usual mean field games equations…

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We develop a classical well-posedness and regularity theory on a finite connected weighted graph for an extended mean field game system, its associated master equation, and a Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman equation on the probability simplex, all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Wilfrid Gangbo , Sebastian Munoz , Jeremy Wu , Zhaoyu Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed probabilistic analysis of the optimal control of nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems of the McKean Vlasov type. Motivated by the recent interest in mean field games, we highlight the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-26 René Carmona , Francois Delarue

We formulate a class of mean field games on a finite state space with variational principles resembling those in continuous-state mean field games. We construct a controlled continuity equation featuring a nonlinear activation function on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Yuan Gao , Wuchen Li , Jian-Guo Liu

We prove existence and uniqueness of classical solutions of the master equation for mean field game (MFG) systems with fractional and nonlocal diffusions. We cover a large class of L\'evy diffusions of order greater than one, including…

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Mean-field games with common noise provide a powerful framework for modeling the collective behavior of large populations subject to shared randomness, such as systemic risk in finance or environmental shocks in economics. These problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Ruimeng Hu , Botao Jin , Mathieu Laurière , Jiacheng Zhang

We consider an $N$-player game where the states of the players evolve with time as Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) with interaction only in the drift terms. Each player controls the drift of the SDE satisfied by her state process,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Erhan Bayraktar , Nikolaos Kolliopoulos

This paper is concerned with a backward-forward stochastic differential equation (BFSDE) system, in which a large number of negligible agents are coupled in their dynamics via state average. Here some BSDE is introduced as the dynamics of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Jianhui Huang , Shujun Wang , Zhen Wu

The standard solution concept for stochastic games is Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE); however, its computation becomes intractable as the number of players increases. Instead, we consider mean field equilibrium (MFE) that has been…

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