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We analyse fully nonlinear second-order mean field games (MFG) with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians, which take the form of a coupled system of a fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and a Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Thomas Sales , Iain Smears

The ergodic equation is a basic tool in the study of mean-payoff stochastic games. Its solvability entails that the mean payoff is independent of the initial state. Moreover, optimal stationary strategies are readily obtained from its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Marianne Akian , Stéphane Gaubert , Antoine Hochart

We study the local stability properties of solutions to ergodic and discounted mean field games systems, as the time horizon $T \to +\infty$, around stationary equilibria, when the Hamiltonian is quadratic. We replace the usual monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Marco Cirant , Nicolò De Bernardi

This paper investigates the existence of positive normalized solutions to the Sobolev critical Schr\"{o}dinger equation: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} &-\Delta u +\lambda u =|u|^{2^*-2}u \quad &\mbox{in}& \ \Omega,\\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Xiaojun Chang , Manting Liu , Duokui Yan

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 propose a new approach to mean field games with major and minor players. Our formulation involves a two player game where the optimization of the representative minor player is standard while the major player faces an optimization over…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-26 Rene Carmona , Xiuneng Zhu

This paper studies the properties of solutions to a class of elliptic and parabolic problems involving the fractional Laplacian. By applying the mountain pass theorem, we prove the existence of bounded classical positive solutions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Haipeng Lu , Mei Yu

In this note we prove the uniqueness of solutions to a class of Mean Field Games systems subject to possibly degenerate individual noise. Our results hold true for arbitrary long time horizons and for general non-separable Hamiltonians that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Alpár R. Mészáros , Chenchen Mou

In this paper, we introduce a bilevel optimization framework for addressing inverse mean-field games, alongside an exploration of numerical methods tailored for this bilevel problem. The primary benefit of our bilevel formulation lies in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jiajia Yu , Quan Xiao , Tianyi Chen , Rongjie Lai

We mainly investigate the continuous dependence on parameters of nontrivial solutions for a generalized poly-Laplacian system on the weighted finite graph $G=(V, E)$. We firstly present an existence result of mountain pass type nontrivial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Xiaoyu Wang , Junping Xie , Xingyong Zhang , Xin Ou

The paper is concerned with two-person zero-sum mean-field linear-quadratic stochastic differential games over finite horizons. By a Hilbert space method, a necessary condition and a sufficient condition are derived for the existence of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Jingrui Sun , Hanxiao Wang , Zhen Wu

We study the mean field games equations, consisting of the coupled Kolmogorov-Fokker-Planck and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The equations are complemented by initial and terminal conditions. It is shown that with some specific choice…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Sergey I. Nikulin , Olga S. Rozanova

We consider a class of $N$-player games and mean-field games of singular controls with ergodic performance criterion, providing a benchmark case for irreversible investment games featuring mean-field interaction and strategic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Federico Cannerozzi , Giorgio Ferrari

We establish an existence of equilibrium result for a class of non-Markovian mean-field games with unbounded control space in weak formulation. Our result is based on new existence and stability results for quadratic-growth generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Ulrich Horst , Takashi Sato

We obtain the existence of mountain pass solutions for quasi-linear equations without the typical assumptions which guarantee the boundedness of an arbitrary Palais-Smale sequence. This is done through a recent version of the monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Benedetta Pellacci , Marco Squassina

A general class of mean field games are considered where the governing dynamics are controlled diffusions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The optimization criterion is the long time average of a running cost function. Under various sets of hypotheses,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Johnson Carroll

In this paper, we establish the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to first-order discount mean field games and a stability result to give the existence for the ergodic problem. We show an example to illustrate the multiplicity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Hiroyoshi Mitake , Kengo Terai

We study an ergodic mean field game problem with state constraints. In our model the agents are affected by idiosyncratic noise and use a (singular) feedback control to prevent the Brownian motion from exiting the domain. We characterize…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Alessio Porretta , Michele Ricciardi

While the general theory for the terminal-initial value problem for mean-field games (MFGs) has achieved a substantial progress, the corresponding forward-forward problem is still poorly understood - even in the one-dimensional setting.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Diogo Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Marc Sedjro

Here, we consider one-dimensional forward-forward mean-field games (MFGs) with congestion, which were introduced to approximate stationary MFGs. We use methods from the theory of conservation laws to examine the qualitative properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Diogo Gomes , Marc Sedjro
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