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How do decisions change with the economic environment and with time? This paper studies general nonstationary stopping problems and provides the methodological tools to answer these questions. First, we identify conditions that ensure a…

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This paper studies a discrete-time major-minor mean field game of stopping where the major player can choose either an optimal control or stopping time. We look for the relaxed equilibrium as a randomized stopping policy, which is…

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We prove the global-in-time well-posedness for a broad class of mean field game problems, which is beyond the special linear-quadratic setting, as long as the mean field sensitivity is not too large. Through the stochastic maximum…

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We force uniqueness in finite state mean field games by adding a Wright-Fisher common noise. We achieve this by analyzing the master equation of this game, which is a degenerate parabolic second-order partial differential equation set on…

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In this paper, we study semilinear fractional equations $$(-\Delta)^s u(x) = f(u(x))$$ in a half-space and prove that all positive solutions are strictly increasing in the $x_n$-direction. Previous results typically require the solution $u$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Wenxiong Chen , Yahong Guo , Leyun Wu

The goal of the paper is to develop the theory of finite state mean field games with major and minor players when the state space of the game is finite. We introduce the finite player games and derive a mean field game formulation in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Rene Carmona , Peiqi Wang

In this paper, we consider the mean field game with a common noise and allow the state coefficients to vary with the conditional distribution in a nonlinear way. We assume that the cost function satisfies a convexity and a weak monotonicity…

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The possibility of determining the state of a quantum system after a continuous measurement of position is discussed in the framework of quantum trajectory theory. Initial lack of knowledge of the system and external noises are accounted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. Doherty , S. M. Tan , A. S. Parkins , D. F. Walls

In this paper we provide the existence of classical solutions to stationary mean field game systems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$, with coercive potential, aggregating local coupling, and under general conditions on the Hamiltonian,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant

In the paper the conditions are obtained providing existence and uniqueness of the regular solution of the boundary problem for class of the second order homogeneous operator-differential equation with singular coefficients. High term of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-10-06 Rustamova Lamiya Aladdin

We consider a Hamiltonian system of free boundary type, showing first uniform bounds and existence of solutions and of the free boundary. Then, for any smooth and bounded domain, we prove uniqueness of positive solutions in a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Daniele Bartolucci , Yeyao Hu , Aleks Jevnikar , Juncheng Wei , Wen Yang

In this paper, we consider Mean Field Games in the presence of common noise relaxing the usual independence assumption of individual random noise. We assume a simple linear model with terminal cost satisfying a convexity and a weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Saran Ahuja

In this manuscript we study the well-posedness of the master equations for mean field games with volatility control. This infinite dimensional PDE is nonlinear with respect to both the first and second-order derivatives of its solution. For…

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This paper provides some necessary and sufficient conditions for a generalMarkovian Gaussian master equation to have a unique pure steady state. The conditions are described by simple matrix equations; thus the so-called environment…

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The paper is concerned with the study of a control system consisting of one major agent and many identical minor agents in the limit case when the number of agents tends to infinity. To study the limiting system we use the mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Yurii Averboukh

The set of continuous norm-preserving stochastic Schrodinger equations associated with the Lindblad master equation is introduced. This set is used to describe the localization properties of the state vector toward eigenstates of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rigo , F. Mota-Furtado , P. F. O'Mahony

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-19 Olivier Guéant

In a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ over time interval $(0,T)$, we consider mean field game equations whose principal coefficients depend on the time and state variables with a general Hamiltonian. We attach the non-zero Robin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Oleg Imanuvilov , Hongyu Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

The evolution of a continuous time Markov process with a finite number of states is usually calculated by the Master equation - a linear differential equations with a singular generator matrix. We derive a general method for reducing the…

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