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In this paper, we study deterministic mean field games for agents who operate in a bounded domain. In this case, the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibria cannot be deduced as for unrestricted state space because, for a large set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Piermarco Cannarsa , Rossana Capuani

We present a novel framework for mean field games with finite state space and common noise, where the common noise is given through shocks that occur at random times. We first analyze the game for up to $n$ shocks, in which case we are able…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Berenice Anne Neumann , Frank T. Seifried

In this paper, we propose and study the utilization of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DN) map to uniquely identify the discount functions $r, k$ and cost function $F$ in a stationary mean field game (MFG) system. This study features several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Ming-Hui Ding , Hongyu Liu , Guang-Hui Zheng

The mean field limit of large-population symmetric stochastic differential games is derived in a general setting, with and without common noise, on a finite time horizon. Minimal assumptions are imposed on equilibrium strategies, which may…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Daniel Lacker

In this paper, we consider two-state mean-field games and its dual formulation. We then discuss numerical methods for these problems. Finally, we present various numerical experiments, exhibiting different behaviours, including shock…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Diogo A. Gomes , Roberto M. Velho , Marie-Therese Wolfram

We study the singular perturbation problem for mean field game systems with control of acceleration. For such a problem we analyze the behavior of solutions as the acceleration costs vanishes. In this setting the Hamiltonian fails to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Cristian Mendico

In this paper, we introduce a natural learning rule for mean field games with finite state and action space, the so-called myopic adjustment process. The main motivation for these considerations are the complex computations necessary to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Berenice Anne Neumann

A Coefficient Inverse Problem (CIP) of the determination of a coefficient of the Mean Field Games System (MFGS) of the second order is considered. The input data are generated by a single measurement event. Lateral Cauchy data, i.e.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Michael V. Klibanov

This work introduces a new general approach for the numerical analysis of stable equilibria to second order mean field games systems in cases where the uniqueness of solutions may fail. For the sake of simplicity, we focus on a simple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Jules Berry , Olivier Ley , Francisco J Silva

A retrospective analysis process for the mean field games system (MFGS) is considered. For the first time, Carleman estimates are applied to the analysis of the MFGS. Two new Carleman estimates are derived. They allow to obtain the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Michael V. Klibanov , Yurii Averboukh

We investigate inverse backward-in-time problems for a class of second-order degenerate Mean-Field Game (MFG) systems. More precisely, given the final datum $(u(\cdot, T),m(\cdot, T))$ of a solution to the one-dimensional mean-field game…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-21 S. E. Chorfi , A. Habbal , M. Jahid , L. Maniar , A. Ratnani

By following the study in [24], we consider an inverse boundary problem for the mean field game system where a probability density constraint is enforced on the game agents. That is, we consider the case that reflective boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Hongyu Liu , Shen Zhang

The goal of this paper is to study a Mean Field Game (MFG) system stemming from the harvesting of resources. Modelling the latter through a reaction-diffusion equation and the harvesters as competing rational agents, we are led to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Ziad Kobeissi , Idriss Mazari-Fouquer , Domènec Ruiz-Balet

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

Mean field games is a recent area of study introduced by Lions and Lasry in a series of seminal papers in 2006. Mean field games model situations of competition between large number of rational agents that play non-cooperative dynamic games…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-18 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

We study the local in time existence of a regular solution of a nonlinear parabolic backward-forward system arising from the theory of Mean-Field Games (briefly MFG). The proof is based on a contraction argument in a suitable space that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Marco Cirant , Roberto Gianni , Paola Mannucci

We consider a class of deterministic mean field games, where the state associated with each player evolves according to an ODE which is linear w.r.t. the control. Existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions are studied from the point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Alberto Bressan , Khai T. Nguyen

We consider the one-dimensional stationary first-order mean-field game (MFG) system with the coupling between the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the transport equation. In both cases that the coupling is strictly increasing and decreasing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Yiru Cai , Haobo Qi , Yi Tan , Xifeng Su

The second order Mean Field Games system (MFGS) in a bounded domain with the lateral Cauchy data is considered. This means that both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary data for the solution the MFGS are given. Two H\"older stability estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu

A new type of asymptotic behavior in a game dynamics system is discovered. The system exhibits behavior which combines chaotic motion and attraction to heteroclinic cycles; the trajectory visits several unstable stationary states repeatedly…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Tsuyoshi Chawanya