Mean Field Control with Poissonian Common Noise: A Pathwise Compactification Approach

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Autores principales: Bo, Lijun, Wang, Jingfei, Wei, Xiaoli, Yu, Xiang
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Publicado: 2025
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author Bo, Lijun
Wang, Jingfei
Wei, Xiaoli
Yu, Xiang
author_facet Bo, Lijun
Wang, Jingfei
Wei, Xiaoli
Yu, Xiang
contents This paper contributes to the compactification approach to study mean-field control problems with Poissonian common noise. To overcome the lack of compactness and continuity issues caused by common noise, we exploit the point process representation of the Poisson random measure with finite intensity and propose a pathwise formulation in a two-step procedure by freezing a sample path of the common noise. In the first step, we establish the existence of the optimal relaxed control in the pathwise formulation as if common noise is absent, but with finite deterministic jumping times. The second step plays the key role in our approach, which is to aggregate the optimal solutions in the pathwise formulation over all sample paths of common noise and show that it yields an optimal solution in the original model. To this end, with the help of concatenation techniques, we first develop a pathwise superposition principle in the model with deterministic jumping times, drawing a relationship between the pathwise relaxed control problem and the pathwise measure-valued control problem. As a result, we can further bridge the equivalence among different problem formulations and verify that the constructed solution under aggregation is indeed optimal in the original problem. We also extend the methodology to solve mean-field games with Poissonian common noise, confirming the existence of a strong mean field equilibrium.
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spellingShingle Mean Field Control with Poissonian Common Noise: A Pathwise Compactification Approach
Bo, Lijun
Wang, Jingfei
Wei, Xiaoli
Yu, Xiang
Optimization and Control
Probability
This paper contributes to the compactification approach to study mean-field control problems with Poissonian common noise. To overcome the lack of compactness and continuity issues caused by common noise, we exploit the point process representation of the Poisson random measure with finite intensity and propose a pathwise formulation in a two-step procedure by freezing a sample path of the common noise. In the first step, we establish the existence of the optimal relaxed control in the pathwise formulation as if common noise is absent, but with finite deterministic jumping times. The second step plays the key role in our approach, which is to aggregate the optimal solutions in the pathwise formulation over all sample paths of common noise and show that it yields an optimal solution in the original model. To this end, with the help of concatenation techniques, we first develop a pathwise superposition principle in the model with deterministic jumping times, drawing a relationship between the pathwise relaxed control problem and the pathwise measure-valued control problem. As a result, we can further bridge the equivalence among different problem formulations and verify that the constructed solution under aggregation is indeed optimal in the original problem. We also extend the methodology to solve mean-field games with Poissonian common noise, confirming the existence of a strong mean field equilibrium.
title Mean Field Control with Poissonian Common Noise: A Pathwise Compactification Approach
topic Optimization and Control
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23441