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We study the behavior of solutions to the first-order mean field games system with a local coupling, when the initial density is a compactly supported function on the real line. Our results show that the solution is smooth in regions where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Sebastian Munoz , Alessio Porretta

In this paper we consider symmetric games where a large number of players can be in any one of d states. We derive a limiting mean field model and characterize its main properties. This mean field limit is a system of coupled ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

Mean Field Games (MFG) have been introduced to tackle games with a large number of competing players. Considering the limit when the number of players is infinite, Nash equilibria are studied by considering the interaction of a typical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Mathieu Lauriere

We provide an existence result for stationary fractional mean field game systems, with fractional exponent greater than 1/2. In the case in which the coupling is a nonlocal regularizing potential, we obtain existence of solutions under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Annalisa Cesaroni , Marco Cirant , Serena Dipierro , Matteo Novaga , Enrico Valdinoci

We consider boundary value problems for quasilinear first-order one-dimensional hyperbolic systems in a strip. The boundary conditions are supposed to be of a smoothing type, in the sense that the $L^2$-generalized solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 I. Kmit , L. Recke , V. Tkachenko

We propose a new approach to mean field games with major and minor players. Our formulation involves a two player game where the optimization of the representative minor player is standard while the major player faces an optimization over…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Rene Carmona , Xiuneng Zhu

We consider variational Mean Field Games endowed with a constraint on the maximal density of the distribution of players. Minimizers of the variational formulation are equilibria for a game where both the running cost and the final cost of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Hugo Lavenant , Filippo Santambrogio

The policy iteration method is a classical algorithm for solving optimal control problems. In this paper, we introduce a policy iteration method for Mean Field Games systems, and we study the convergence of this procedure to a solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Alessandro Goffi

This article examines mean-field-type game problems by means of a direct method. We provide various solvable examples beyond the classical linear-quadratic game problems. These include quadratic-quadratic games and games with power,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Julian Barreiro-Gomez , Tyrone E. Duncan , Bozenna Pasik-Duncan , Hamidou Tembine

In this paper, we examine the stationary relaxed singular control problem within a multi-dimensional framework for a single agent, as well as its mean field game equivalent. We demonstrate that optimal relaxed controls exist for two problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Asaf Cohen , Chuhao Sun

We investigate the existence of solutions to viscous ergodic Mean Field Games systems in bounded domains with Neumann boundary conditions and local, possibly aggregative couplings. In particular we exploit the associated variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Cosenza , Gianmaria Verzini

This paper studies the convergence of mean field games with finite state space to mean field games with a continuous state space. We examine a space discretization of a diffusive dynamics, which is reminiscent of the Markov chain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Charles Bertucci , Alekos Cecchin

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…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Erhan Bayraktar , Alekos Cecchin , Asaf Cohen , Francois Delarue

We study mean field games and corresponding $N$-player games in continuous time over a finite time horizon where the position of each agent belongs to a finite state space. As opposed to previous works on finite state mean field games, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Alekos Cecchin , Markus Fischer

We study the existence of mountain-pass solutions to a potential-free mean-field game system in the whole space $\mathbb R^n$ under the mass-supercritical regime, assuming an aggregating local coupling and a $C^2$ Hamiltonian that is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Fanze Kong , Yonghui Tong , Xiaoyu Zeng

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang

The primary objective of this paper is to understand first-order, time-dependent mean-field games with Neumann boundary conditions, a question that remains under-explored in the literature. This matter is particularly relevant given the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Diogo A. Gomes , Michele Ricciardi

We consider second-order ergodic Mean-Field Games systems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$ with coercive potential and aggregating nonlocal coupling, defined in terms of a Riesz interaction kernel. These MFG systems describe Nash…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Chiara Bernardini , Annalisa Cesaroni

We introduce a mean field game for a family of filtering problems related to the classic sequential testing of the drift of a Brownian motion. To the best of our knowledge this work presents the first treatment of mean field filtering games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Steven Campbell , Yuchong Zhang

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of mean field game (MFG) systems influenced by a common noise. While classical results establish the convergence of deterministic MFG towards stationary solutions under suitable monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Raphaël Maillet , Wenbin Yan