Fully nonlinear second-order mean field games with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians

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author Sales, Thomas
Smears, Iain
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Smears, Iain
contents 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 differential inclusion (PDI) featuring the set-valued subdifferential of the Hamiltonian. We show the existence of solutions of some stationary MFG systems with quite general coupling operators and nonnegative distributional source terms, on general bounded convex domains, under the primary assumptions of uniform ellipticity and the Cordes condition on the diffusion coefficient. The existence proof is founded on an original, and equivalent, reformulation of the PDI as a nonstandard variational inequality (VI), that offers significant flexibility in passages to limits. Furthermore, the uniqueness of the solution of the PDI/VI system is proved in the case of strictly monotone couplings. We then show how the MFG PDI/VI system in the fully nonlinear setting can be obtained as the limit of a sequence of PDE systems with differentiable Hamiltonians, and we give further results on the continuous dependence of the solution.
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spellingShingle Fully nonlinear second-order mean field games with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians
Sales, Thomas
Smears, Iain
Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
35J57, 35Q89, 49N80, 49J53
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 differential inclusion (PDI) featuring the set-valued subdifferential of the Hamiltonian. We show the existence of solutions of some stationary MFG systems with quite general coupling operators and nonnegative distributional source terms, on general bounded convex domains, under the primary assumptions of uniform ellipticity and the Cordes condition on the diffusion coefficient. The existence proof is founded on an original, and equivalent, reformulation of the PDI as a nonstandard variational inequality (VI), that offers significant flexibility in passages to limits. Furthermore, the uniqueness of the solution of the PDI/VI system is proved in the case of strictly monotone couplings. We then show how the MFG PDI/VI system in the fully nonlinear setting can be obtained as the limit of a sequence of PDE systems with differentiable Hamiltonians, and we give further results on the continuous dependence of the solution.
title Fully nonlinear second-order mean field games with nondifferentiable Hamiltonians
topic Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
35J57, 35Q89, 49N80, 49J53
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12780