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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

We introduce and analyze a new finite-difference scheme, relying on the theta-method, for solving monotone second-order mean field games. These games consist of a coupled system of the Fokker-Planck and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-23 J. Frédéric Bonnans , Kang Liu , Laurent Pfeiffer

We formulate and investigate a mean field optimization (MFO) problem over a set of probability distributions $\mu$ with a prescribed marginal $m$. The cost function depends on an aggregate term, which is the expectation of $\mu$ with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Kang Liu , Laurent Pfeiffer

A classical problem in ergodic continuous time control consists of studying the limit behavior of the optimal value of a discounted cost functional with infinite horizon as the discount factor $\lambda$ tends to zero. In the literature,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Piermarco Cannarsa , Stephane Gaubert , Cristian Mendico , Marc Quincampoix

We introduce a fully discrete scheme to solve a class of high-dimensional Mean Field Games systems. Our approach couples semi-Lagrangian (SL) time discretizations with Tensor-Train (TT) decompositions to tame the curse of dimensionality. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Elisabetta Carlini , Luca Saluzzi

We study a two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game with asymmetric information where the payoff depends on a controlled continuous-time Markov chain X with finite state space which is only observed by player 1. This model was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Fabien Gensbittel

In this paper, we introduce and study a first-order mean-field game obstacle problem. We examine the case of local dependence on the measure under assumptions that include both the logarithmic case and power-like nonlinearities. Since the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Diogo Gomes , Stefania Patrizi

In this paper, we study the infinite-time mean field games with discounting, establishing an equilibrium where individual optimal strategies collectively regenerate the mean-field distribution. To solve this problem, we partition all agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yongsheng Song , Zeyu Yang

The policy iteration method is a classical algorithm for solving optimal control problems. In this paper, we introduce a policy iteration method for Mean Field Games systems, and we study the convergence of this procedure to a solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli , Alessandro Goffi

Motivated by numerical challenges in first-order mean field games (MFGs) and the weak noise theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, we consider the problem of vanishing viscosity approximations for MFGs. We provide the first results on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Wenpin Tang , Yuming Paul Zhang

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

In this paper we study a mean field model for discrete time, finite number of states, dynamic games. These models arise in situations that involve a very large number of agents moving from state to state according to certain optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Diogo A. Gomes , Joana Mohr , Rafael R. Souza

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 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 consider mean field games with discrete state spaces (called discrete mean field games in the following) and we analyze these games in continuous and discrete time, over finite as well as infinite time horizons. We prove the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Josu Doncel , Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal

We introduce a zero-sum game problem of mean-field type as an extension of the classical zero-sum Dynkin game problem to the case where the payoff processes might depend on the value of the game and its probability law. We establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Boualem Djehiche , Roxana Dumitrescu

We develop a splitting method to prove the well-posedness, in short time, of solutions for two master equations in mean field game (MFG) theory: the second order master equation, describing MFGs with a common noise, and the system of master…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Marco Cirant , Alessio Porretta

We study the regularity and well-posedness of the local, first-order forward-backward mean field games system, assuming a polynomially growing cost function and a Hamiltonian of quadratic growth. We consider systems and terminal data that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Sebastian Munoz

The paper is concerned with a zero-sum differential game in the case where a payoff is determined by the exit time, that is, the first time when the system leaves the game domain. Additionally, we assume that a part of domain's boundary is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Ekaterina Kolpakova

This paper investigates a linear-quadratic mean field games problem with common noise, where the drift term and diffusion term of individual state equations are coupled with both the state, control, and mean field terms of the state, and we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Wenyu Cong , Jingtao Shi , Bingchang Wang