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We consider the variational approach to prove the existence of solutions of second order stationary Mean Field Games on a bounded domain $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{d}$, with Neumann boundary conditions, and with and without density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Alpár Richárd Mészáros , Francisco J. Silva

We study normalized solutions for the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation with potential and Sobolev critical nonlinearity. By establishing suitable assumptions on the potential, together with new techniques, we find a mountain-pass type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Juntao Sun , Shuai Yao , He Zhang

Motivated by recent developments in mean-field games in ecology, in this paper we introduce a connection between the best response dynamics in evolutionary game theory, the minimization of the highest income of a game, and minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Dante Kalise , Alessio Oliviero , Domènec Ruiz-Balet

We provide a max-min characterization of the mountain pass energy level for a family of variational problems. As a consequence we deduce the mountain pass structure of solutions to suitable PDEs, whose existence follows from classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 Jacopo Bellazzini , Nicola Visciglia

Here, we observe that mean-field game (MFG) systems admit a two-player infinite-dimensional general-sum differential game formulation. We show that particular regimes of this game reduce to previously known variational principles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Marco Cirant , Levon Nurbekyan

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with mixed nonlinearities: \begin{eqnarray*} \left\{\aligned &-\Delta u=\lambda u+\mu |u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{2^*-2}u\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^N,\\ &u\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Juncheng Wei , Yuanze Wu

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

In this paper, we characterize the asymptotic behavior of a first-order stationary mean-field game (MFG) with a logarithm coupling, a quadratic Hamiltonian, and a periodically oscillating potential. This study falls into the realm of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes , Xianjin Yang

The Ghoussoub-Preiss's generalized Mountain Pass Lemma with Cerami-Palais-Smale type condition is a generalization of classical MPL of Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz, we apply it to study the existence of the periodic solutions with a given energy…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Fengying Li , Bingyu Li , Shiqing Zhang

We consider a kind of nonlinear systems on a locally finite graphs $G=(V,E)$. We prove via the mountain pass theorem that this kind of systems has a nontrivial ground state solution which depends on the parameter $\lambda$ with some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Jinyan Xu , Liang Zhao

We investigate the existence of classical solutions to second-order quadratic Mean-Field Games systems with local and strongly decreasing couplings of the form $-\sigma m^\alpha$, $\alpha \ge 2/N$, where $m$ is the population density and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Marco Cirant , Daria Ghilli

This paper studies multidimensional mean field games with common noise and the related system of McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations deriving from the stochastic maximum principle. We first propose some…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jodi Dianetti

In this paper we consider extended stationary mean field games, that is mean-field games which depend on the velocity field of the players. We prove various a-priori estimates which generalize the results for quasi-variational mean field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Diogo A. Gomes , Stefania Patrizi , Vardan Voskanyan

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 propose a new viewpoint on variational mean-field games with diffusion and quadratic Hamiltonian. We show the equivalence of such mean-field games with a relative entropy minimization at the level of probabilities on curves. We also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Carlier , Simone Di Marino , Luca Nenna

The purpose of this paper is to establish a critical point theorem, which is an infinite-dimensional generalization of the classical generalized Mountain Pass Theorem of P. H. Rabinowitz \cite[Theorem 5.3]{Ra}. As application, we obtain the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Ablanvi Songo , Fabrice Colin

We study mean-field game (MFG) problems with rough common noise, in which the representative state dynamics are governed by a controlled rough stochastic differential equation driven by an idiosyncratic Brownian motion and a deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Xihao He , Xiang Yu , Fengyi Yuan

We provide an existence result for a Schr\"odinger-Poisson system in gradient form, set in the whole plane, in the case of zero mass. Since the setting is limiting for the Sobolev embedding, we admit nonlinearities with subcritical or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Federico Bernini , Giulio Romani , Cristina Tarsi

This paper is devoted to finite horizon deterministic mean field games in which the state space is a network. The agents control their velocity, and when they occupy a vertex, they can enter into any incident edge. The running and terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Yves Achdou , Paola Mannucci , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

We consider N-player and mean field games in continuous time over a finite horizon, where the position of each agent belongs to {-1,1}. If there is uniqueness of mean field game solutions, e.g. under monotonicity assumptions, then the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Alekos Cecchin , Paolo Dai Pra , Markus Fischer , Guglielmo Pelino