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We propose a numerical method for stationary Mean Field Games defined on a network. In this framework a correct approximation of the transition conditions at the vertices plays a crucial role. We prove existence, uniqueness and convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi

Mathematical mean-field approaches have been used in many fields, not only in Physics and Chemistry, but also recently in Finance, Economics, and Game Theory. In this paper we will study a new special mean-field problem in a purely…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Juan Li

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 model inspired by crowd motion where agents aim to reach a closed set, called target set, in minimal time. Congestion phenomena are modeled through a constraint on the velocity of an agent that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand , Guilherme Mazanti

For a mean field game model with a major and infinite minor players, we characterize a notion of Nash equilibrium via a system of so-called master equations, namely a system of nonlinear transport equations in the space of measures. Then,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Marco Cirant , Alessio Porretta

We consider stationary viscous Mean-Field Games systems in the case of local, decreasing and unbounded coupling. These systems arise in ergodic mean-field game theory, and describe Nash equilibria of games with a large number of agents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Marco Cirant

The mean field approximation is numerically validated in the bosonic case by considering the time evolution of quantum states and their associated reduced density matrices by many-body Schr\"odinger dynamics. The model phase-space is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Boris Pawilowski

We consider a Mean Field Games model where the dynamics of the agents is subdiffusive. According to the optimal control interpretation of the problem, we get a system involving fractional time-derivatives for the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Fabio Camilli , Raul De Maio

This paper develops a linear programming approach for mean field games with reflected jump-diffusion dynamics. We first prove the equivalence between the mean field equilibria in the linear programming formulation and those in the weak…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Zongxia Liang , Xiang Yu , Keyu Zhang

Moment closure methods appear in myriad scientific disciplines in the modelling of complex systems. The goal is to achieve a closed form of a large, usually even infinite, set of coupled differential (or difference) equations. Each equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-24 Christian Kuehn

In the context of simple finite-state discrete time systems, we introduce a generalization of mean field game solution, called correlated solution, which can be seen as the mean field game analogue of a correlated equilibrium. Our notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Luciano Campi , Markus Fischer

Combinatorial optimization is a fertile testing ground for statistical physics methods developed in the context of disordered systems, allowing one to confront theoretical mean field predictions with actual properties of finite dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Houdayer , J. H. Boutet de Monvel , O. C. Martin

We consider time-dependent viscous Mean-Field Games systems in the case of local, decreasing and unbounded coupling. These systems arise in mean-field game theory, and describe Nash equilibria of games with a large number of agents aiming…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Marco Cirant , Daniela Tonon

We analyze a (possibly degenerate) second order mean field games system of partial differential equations. The distinguishing features of the model considered are (1) that it is not uniformly parabolic, including the first order case as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Pierre Cardaliaguet , J. Graber , Alessio Porretta , Daniela Tonon

This paper proposes a new mathematical paradigm to analyze discrete-time mean-field games. It is shown that finding Nash equilibrium solutions for a general class of discrete-time mean-field games is equivalent to solving an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Xin Guo , Anran Hu , Junzi Zhang

Mean field games (MFGs) offer a powerful framework for modeling large-scale multi-agent systems. This paper addresses MFGs formulated in continuous time with discrete state spaces, where agents' dynamics are governed by continuous-time…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yannick Eich , Christian Fabian , Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

This paper represents the first attempt to develop a theory for linear-quadratic mean field games in possibly infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. As a starting point, we study the case, considered in most finite dimensional contributions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Salvatore Federico , Fausto Gozzi , Daria Ghilli

In this article, we study a simplified version of a density-dependent first-order mean field game, in which the players face a penalization equal to the population density at their final position. We consider the problem of finding an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 P. Jameson Graber , Brady Zimmerman

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

Here we understand \textit{dimensional reduction} as a procedure to obtain an effective model in $D-1$ dimensions that is related to the original model in $D$ dimensions. To explore this concept we use both a self-interacting fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 E. Cavalcanti , C. A. Linhares , J. A. Lourenço , A. P. C. Malbouisson