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We consider stochastic differential games with $N$ players, linear-Gaussian dynamics in arbitrary state-space dimension, and long-time-average cost with quadratic running cost. Admissible controls are feedbacks for which the system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Martino Bardi , Fabio S. Priuli

This paper introduces a notion of weak solution for the coupled system of master equations in mean field games with a major player. It extends the previously introduced notion of Lipschitz solutions in mean field games. By relying on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Charles Meynard

Here, we study radial solutions for first- and second-order stationary Mean-Field Games (MFG) with congestion on $\mathbb{R}^d$. MFGs with congestion model problems where the agents' motion is hampered in high-density regions. The radial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-23 David Evangelista , Diogo A. Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan

In this paper we study a class of matrix-valued linear-quadratic mean-field-type games for both the risk-neutral, risk-sensitive and robust cases. Non-cooperation, full cooperation and adversarial between teams are treated. We provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Julian Barreiro-Gomez , Tyrone E. Duncan , Hamidou Tembine

We propose a policy iteration method to solve an inverse problem for a mean-field game (MFG) model, specifically to reconstruct the obstacle function in the game from the partial observation data of value functions, which represent the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak , Shanyin Tong

We formulate a class of mean field games on a finite state space with variational principles resembling those in continuous-state mean field games. We construct a controlled continuity equation featuring a nonlinear activation function on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Yuan Gao , Wuchen Li , Jian-Guo Liu

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

The p-Laplace operator in the entire N-dimensional Euclidean space, subject to external electromagnetic potentials, is investigated. In the general case 1<p<N, the existence of at least one solution of mountain pass type to a weighted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Laura Baldelli , Roberta Filippucci , David Krejcirik

This article presents the variant of the approach introduced in the recent work of Bensoussan, Wong, Yam and Yuan [13] to the generic first-order mean field game problem. A major contribution here is the provision of new crucial a priori…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Alain Bensoussan , Tak Kwong Wong , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam , Hongwei Yuan

This paper presents a class of evolutive Mean Field Games with multiple solutions for all time horizons T and convex but non-smooth Hamiltonian H, as well as for smooth H and T large enough. The phenomenon is analyzed in both the PDE and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Martino Bardi , Markus Fischer

We study a non-homogeneous boundary value problem in a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We prove the existence of at least two nonnegative and non-trivial weak solutions. Our approach relies on Orlicz-Sobolev spaces theory combined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Mihai Mihăilescu , Dušan Repovš

We study the intermediate asymptotic behavior of solutions to the first-order mean field games system with a local coupling, when the initial density is a compactly supported function on the real line, and the coupling is of power type.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Sebastian Munoz

This paper represents the first attempt to develop a theory for linear-quadratic mean field games in possibly infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces. As a starting point, we study the case, considered in most finite dimensional contributions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Salvatore Federico , Fausto Gozzi , Daria Ghilli

We introduce a notion of weak solution of the master equation without idiosyncratic noise in Mean Field Game theory and establish its existence, uniqueness up to a constant and consistency with classical solutions when it is smooth. We work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Panagiotis Souganidis

This paper considers discounted infinite horizon mean field games by extending the probabilistic weak formulation of the game as introduced by Carmona and Lacker (2015). Under similar assumptions as in the finite horizon game, we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 René Carmona , Ludovic Tangpi , Kaiwen Zhang

This work is devoted to finding the closed-loop equilibria for a class of mean-field games (MFGs) with infinitely many symmetric players in a common switching environment when the cost functional is under general discount in time. There are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Hongwei Mei , Son Luu Nguyen , George Yin

In present paper, we prove the existence of solutions $(\lambda, u)\in \R\times H^1(\R^N)$ to the following Schr\"odinger equation $$ \begin{cases} -\Delta u(x)+V(x)u(x)+\lambda u(x)=g(u(x))\quad &\hbox{in}~\R^N\\ 0\leq u(x)\in H^1(\R^N),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Yanheng Ding , Xuexiu Zhong

We consider mean-field control problems in discrete time with discounted reward, infinite time horizon and compact state and action space. The existence of optimal policies is shown and the limiting mean-field problem is derived when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle

By using the well-known mountain pass theorem and Ekeland's variational principle, we prove that there exist at least two fully-non-trivial solutions for a $(p,q)$-Kirchhoff elliptic system with the Dirichlet boundary conditions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Zhangyi Yu , Junping Xie , Xingyong Zhang

In a probabilistic mean field game driven by a L\'evy process an individual player aims to minimize a long run discounted/ergodic cost by controlling the process through a pair of increasing and decreasing c\`adl\`ag processes, while he is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Facundo Oliú