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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

This paper is devoted to Fokker-Planck and linear kinetic equations with very weak confinement corresponding to a potential with an at most logarithmic growth and no integrable stationary state. Our goal is to understand how to measure the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Emeric Bouin , Jean Dolbeault , Christian Schmeiser

A standard assumption in mean-field game (MFG) theory is that the coupling between the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the transport equation is monotonically non-decreasing in the density of the population. In many cases, this assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Diogo A. Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Mariana Prazeres

We propose a single-level numerical approach to solve Stackelberg mean field game (MFG) problems. In Stackelberg MFG, an infinite population of agents play a non-cooperative game and choose their controls to optimize their individual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere

In this article we prove the existence of classical solutions to a system of mean field games arising in the study of exhaustible resource production under market competition. Individual trajectories are modeled by a controlled diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-20 P. Jameson Graber , Vincenzo Ignazio , Ariel Neufeld

This paper studies mean field game (MFG) of controls by featuring the joint distribution of the state and the control with the reflected state process along an exogenous stochastic reflection boundary. We contribute to the literature with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Lijun Bo , Jingfei Wang , Xiang Yu

We consider a system of $N$ particles interacting through their empirical distribution on a finite state space in continuous time. In the formal limit as $N\to\infty$, the system takes the form of a nonlinear (McKean--Vlasov) Markov chain.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Asaf Cohen , Ethan Huffman

In this paper we study the global approximate multiplicative controllability for nonlinear degenerate parabolic Cauchy problems. In particular, we consider a one-dimensional semilinear degenerate reaction-diffusion equation in divergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Giuseppe Floridia , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

We consider the degenerate parabolic equation $$ \partial_t u +\mathrm{div} {\mathfrak f}_{\bf x}(u)=\mathrm{div}(\mathrm{div} ( A_{\bf x}(u) ) ), \ \ {\bf x} \in M, \ \ t\geq 0 $$ on a smooth, compact, $d$-dimensional Riemannian manifold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Melanie Graf , Michael Kunzinger , Darko Mitrovic

We consider deterministic Mean Field Games (MFG) in all Euclidean space with a cost functional continuous with respect to the distribution of the agents and attaining its minima in a compact set. We first show that the static MFG with such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Martino Bardi , Hicham Kouhkouh

In this manuscript, we propose a structural condition on non-separable Hamiltonians, which we term displacement monotonicity condition, to study second order mean field games master equations. A rate of dissipation of a bilinear form is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Wilfrid Gangbo , Alpár R. Mészáros , Chenchen Mou , Jianfeng Zhang

Finite-state mean-field games (MFGs) arise as limits of large interacting particle systems and are governed by an MFG system, a coupled forward-backward differential equation consisting of a forward Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck (KFP) equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 William Hofgard , Asaf Cohen , Mathieu Laurière

McKean-Vlasov SDEs describe systems where the dynamics depend on the law of the process. The corresponding Fokker-Planck equation is a nonlinear, nonlocal PDE for the corresponding measure flow. In the presence of common noise and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Fabio Bugini , Peter K. Friz , Wilhelm Stannat

We introduce a new theory of generalised solutions which applies to fully nonlinear PDE systems of any order and allows for merely measurable maps as solutions. This approach bypasses the standard problems arising by the application of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Nikos Katzourakis

In this paper we consider an abstract Cauchy problem for a Maxwell system modelling electromagnetic fields in the presence of an interface between optical media. The electric polarization is in general time-delayed and nonlinear, turning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Tomáš Dohnal , Mathias Ionescu-Tira , Marcus Waurick

Mean field games (MFGs) model the limit of large populations of strategically interacting agents, yet both forward and inverse problems remain challenging. For the forward problem, a difficulty is to design numerical methods with global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Hanwei Yan , Xianjin Yang , Jingguo Zhang

In this article, using DiPerna-Lions theory \cite{Di-Li}, we investigate linear second order stochastic partial differential equations with unbounded and degenerate non-smooth coefficients, and obtain several conditions for existence and…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-24 Xicheng Zhang

Recently, there has been a wide interest in the study of aggregation equations and Patlak-Keller-Segel (PKS) models for chemotaxis with degenerate diffusion. The focus of this paper is the unification and generalization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Jacob Bedrossian , Nancy Rodríguez , Andrea Bertozzi

In this paper, we mainly introduce a general method to study the existence and uniqueness of solution of free boundary problems with partially degenerate diffusion.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Siyu Liu , Mingxin Wang

We consider deterministic mean field games where the dynamics of a typical agent is non-linear with respect to the state variable and affine with respect to the control variable. Particular instances of the problem considered here are mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Justina Gianatti , Francisco J. Silva