Existence for low-regularity McKean-Vlasov dynamics via emergence of regularity

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contents We establish the existence of solutions to common noise McKean-Vlasov martingale problems for coefficients with low regularity. Our approach is able to handle the key challenge posed by drift coefficients that are discontinuous with respect to the narrow convergence of measures. This case arises for e.g. singular interactions. Our proof strategy proceeds via a two-step approximation using smoothed McKean-Vlasov $n$-particle systems: We first pass to the large system limit by taking $n\to \infty$, and subsequently remove the smoothing. A novel aspect of our work is the use of a crucial emergence of regularity property. It ensures that after the first limit, we obtain a process of measures that are absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure and provides quantitative integrability bounds on their densities. We use this regularity to establish a tightness result in a stronger topology than is typically considered. In this way we obtain a sufficiently strong mode of convergence that lets us subsequently remove the smoothing and solve the McKean-Vlasov martingale problem via the particle system approximations.
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spellingShingle Existence for low-regularity McKean-Vlasov dynamics via emergence of regularity
Crowell, Robert Alexander
Probability
60K35, 60G20, 60G20 (Primary), 60H10, 60H15 (Secondary)
We establish the existence of solutions to common noise McKean-Vlasov martingale problems for coefficients with low regularity. Our approach is able to handle the key challenge posed by drift coefficients that are discontinuous with respect to the narrow convergence of measures. This case arises for e.g. singular interactions. Our proof strategy proceeds via a two-step approximation using smoothed McKean-Vlasov $n$-particle systems: We first pass to the large system limit by taking $n\to \infty$, and subsequently remove the smoothing. A novel aspect of our work is the use of a crucial emergence of regularity property. It ensures that after the first limit, we obtain a process of measures that are absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure and provides quantitative integrability bounds on their densities. We use this regularity to establish a tightness result in a stronger topology than is typically considered. In this way we obtain a sufficiently strong mode of convergence that lets us subsequently remove the smoothing and solve the McKean-Vlasov martingale problem via the particle system approximations.
title Existence for low-regularity McKean-Vlasov dynamics via emergence of regularity
topic Probability
60K35, 60G20, 60G20 (Primary), 60H10, 60H15 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21250