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This paper discusses the control of coherent structures in turbulent flows, which has broad applications among complex systems in science and technology. Mean field games have been proved a powerful tool and are proposed here to control the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Yuan Gao , Di Qi

In this paper, we consider a class of infinitely degenerate partial differential systems to obtain the Nash equilibria in the mean field games. The degeneracy in the diffusion and the Hamiltonian may be different. This feature brings…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Yiming Jiang , Jingchuang Ren , Yawei Wei , Jie Xue

In this paper, we prove the existence of classical solutions for second order stationary mean-field game systems. These arise in ergodic (mean-field) optimal control, convex degenerate problems in calculus of variations, and in the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Edgard A. Pimentel , Vardan Voskanyan

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

This work is mainly concerned with the so-called limit theory for mean-field games. Adopting the weak formulation paradigm put forward by Carmona and Lacker, we consider a fully non-Markovian setting allowing for drift control and…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Dylan Possamaï , Ludovic Tangpi

Mean field games are studied in the framework of controlled martingale problems, and general existence theorems are proven in which the equilibrium control is Markovian. The framework is flexible enough to include degenerate volatility,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Daniel Lacker

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

Coordination games with explicit spatial or relational structure are of interest to economists, ecologists, sociologists, and others studying emergent global properties in collective behavior. When assemblies of individuals seek to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-18 John S. McAlister , Nina H. Fefferman , Tadele A. Mengesha

In this paper we examine fully nonlinear mean-field games associated with a minimization problem. The variational setting is driven by a functional depending on its argument through its Hessian matrix. We work under fairly natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Pêdra D. S. Andrade , Edgard A. Pimentel

We study well-posedness of degenerate mixed-type parabolic-hyperbolic equations $$ \partial_tu+\text{div}\big(f(u)\big)=\mathcal{L}[b(u)] $$ on bounded domains with general Dirichlet boundary/exterior conditions. The nonlocal diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nathaël Alibaud , Jørgen Endal , Espen Jakobsen , Ola Mæhlen

The objective of this paper is to analyze the existence of equilibria for a class of deterministic mean field games of controls. The interaction between players is due to both a congestion term and a price function which depends on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Joseph Frédéric Bonnans , Justina Gianatti , Laurent Pfeiffer

Motivated by parallels between mean field games and random matrix theory, we develop stochastic optimal control problems and viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in the setting of non-commutative variables. Rather than real…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Wilfrid Gangbo , David Jekel , Kyeongsik Nam , Aaron Z. Palmer

The mean field games system is a coupled pair of nonlinear partial differential equations arising in differential game theory, as a limit as the number of agents tends to infinity. We prove existence and uniqueness of classical solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 David M. Ambrose

In this paper, we study a class of linear-quadratic (LQ) mean field games of controls with common noises and their corresponding $N$-player games. The theory of mean field game of controls considers a class of mean field games where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Min Li , Chenchen Mou , Zhen Wu , Chao Zhou

We establish existence and uniqueness of solutions to evolutive fractional Mean Field Game systems with regularizing coupling, for any order of the fractional Laplacian $s\in(0,1)$. The existence is addressed via the vanishing viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Marco Cirant , Alessandro Goffi

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

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Chenchen Mou , Jianfeng Zhang , Jianjun Zhou

This paper presents a class of evolutive Mean Field Games with multiple solutions for all time horizons T and convex but non-smooth Hamiltonian H, as well as for smooth H and T large enough. The phenomenon is analyzed in both the PDE and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Martino Bardi , Markus Fischer

We propose a new viewpoint on variational mean-field games with diffusion and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show the equivalence of such mean-field games with a relative entropy minimization at the level of probabilities on curves. We also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Simone Di Marino , Luca Nenna

For a number of important mean field games models, the Hamiltonian is non-local and not additively separable. This means that the distribution of agents appears in the Hamiltonian only in an integral over the whole spatial domain. For mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 David M. Ambrose , Milton C. Lopes Filho , Anna L. Mazzucato , Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes