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Mean-field games (MFGs) are models of large populations of rational agents who seek to optimize an objective function that takes into account their location and the distribution of the remaining agents. Here, we consider stationary MFGs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 David Evangelista , Diogo A. Gomes

We investigate time dependent, first order Mean Field Games on the torus comparing, in a broad and general framework, the classical differential formulation , given by a Hamilton Jacobi equation coupled with a continuity equation, with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Antonio Siconolfi

This article presents the variant of the approach introduced in the recent work of Bensoussan, Wong, Yam and Yuan [13] to the generic first-order mean field game problem. A major contribution here is the provision of new crucial a priori…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Alain Bensoussan , Tak Kwong Wong , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam , Hongwei Yuan

Mean-field games (MFGs) are models for large populations of competing rational agents that seek to optimize a suitable functional. In the case of congestion, this functional takes into account the difficulty of moving in high-density areas.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-05 David Evangelista , Rita Ferreira , Diogo A. Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Vardan Voskanyan

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

A theory of existence and uniqueness is developed for general stochastic differential mean field games with common noise. The concepts of strong and weak solutions are introduced in analogy with the theory of stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Rene Carmona , Francois Delarue , Daniel Lacker

We study the convergence problem for mean field games with common noise and controlled volatility. We adopt the strategy recently put forth by Lauri\`ere and the second author, using the maximum principle to recast the convergence problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Joe Jackson , Ludovic Tangpi

The goal of this paper is to show existence of short-time classical solutions to the so called Master Equation of \emph{first order} Mean Field Games, which can be thought of as the limit of the corresponding master equation of a stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Sergio Mayorga

We analyze asymptotic convergence properties of Newton's method for a class of evolutive Mean Field Games systems with non-separable Hamiltonian arising in mean field type models with congestion. We prove the well posedness of the Mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Fabio Camilli , Qing Tang

H\"older stability estimate and uniqueness are proven for a retrospective problem of Mean Field Games with a non-quadratic Hamiltonian. The previous result was only for the quadratic Hamiltonian. The main tool is the apparatus of Carleman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Michael V. Klibanov , Mikhail Y. Kokurin , Jingzhi Li

We establish the first unconditional well-posedness result for the master equation associated with a general class of mean field games of controls. Our analysis covers games with displacement monotone or Lasry--Lions monotone data, as well…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Joe Jackson , Alpár R. Mészáros

We prove that solutions to a class of Mean Field Game systems with discount are unique provided that the discount factor is large enough, and the Lagrangian term is (proportionally) small enough. This identifies an asymptotic uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Marco Cirant , Elisa Continelli

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

In this manuscript, we establish the global well-posedness for master equations of mean field games of controls, where the interaction is through the joint law of the state and control. Our results are proved under two different conditions:…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Shuhui Liu , Xintian Liu , Chenchen Mou , Defeng Sun

This paper develops a unified framework for proving the existence of solutions to stationary first-order mean-field games (MFGs) based on the theory of monotone operators in Banach spaces. We cast the coupled MFG system as a variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Melih Ucer

The formulation of Mean Field Games (MFG) typically requires continuous differentiability of the Hamiltonian in order to determine the advective term in the Kolmogorov--Fokker--Planck equation for the density of players. However, in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

We consider a system of mean field games with local coupling in the deterministic limit. Under general structure conditions on the Hamiltonian and coupling, we prove existence and uniqueness of the weak solution, characterizing this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Philip Jameson Graber

We study the forward-backward system of stochastic partial differential equations describing a mean field game for a large population of small players subject to both idiosyncratic and common noise. The unique feature of the problem is that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Benjamin Seeger , Panagiotis Souganidis

We study a stationary first--order mean field game on the $d$--dimensional torus. The system couples a Hamilton--Jacobi equation for the value function with a transport equation for the density of players. Our goal is to give a detailed and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Hikmatullo Ismatov

We introduce a notion of weak solution of the master equation without idiosyncratic noise in Mean Field Game theory and establish its existence, uniqueness up to a constant and consistency with classical solutions when it is smooth. We work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis