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Main Authors: Alharbi, AbdulRahman M., Gomes, Diogo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01681
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author Alharbi, AbdulRahman M.
Gomes, Diogo
author_facet Alharbi, AbdulRahman M.
Gomes, Diogo
contents We study a class of local, first-order, stationary mean-field games (MFGs) on bounded domains with nonstandard mixed boundary conditions: prescribed inflow on $Γ_N$ and a relaxed Signorini-type exit condition on $Γ_D$ (complementarity between exit flux and boundary value). For separable Hamiltonians, we overcome the lack of coercivity and the boundary complementarity constraints by introducing a monotone operator on a convex domain, augmented with an auxiliary nonnegative boundary variable $h$ encoding exit flux. To address a constant-shift degeneracy in the value function $u$ (the transport equation depends only on $Du$), we employ a quotient-space formulation that restores coercivity. Using the Browder--Minty theorem, we prove existence for a penalized operator $A_ε$ on a convex domain and pass to the limit as $ ε\to 0^+$. We obtain weak solutions $(m,u,h)$ solving the associated variational inequality, with $m \in L^{β+1}(Ω)$, $u \in W^{1,γ}(Ω)$, and $h$ in the dual trace space on $Γ_D$.
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spellingShingle A Monotone Operator Approach to Separable Mean-Field Games with Mixed Boundary Conditions
Alharbi, AbdulRahman M.
Gomes, Diogo
Analysis of PDEs
We study a class of local, first-order, stationary mean-field games (MFGs) on bounded domains with nonstandard mixed boundary conditions: prescribed inflow on $Γ_N$ and a relaxed Signorini-type exit condition on $Γ_D$ (complementarity between exit flux and boundary value). For separable Hamiltonians, we overcome the lack of coercivity and the boundary complementarity constraints by introducing a monotone operator on a convex domain, augmented with an auxiliary nonnegative boundary variable $h$ encoding exit flux. To address a constant-shift degeneracy in the value function $u$ (the transport equation depends only on $Du$), we employ a quotient-space formulation that restores coercivity. Using the Browder--Minty theorem, we prove existence for a penalized operator $A_ε$ on a convex domain and pass to the limit as $ ε\to 0^+$. We obtain weak solutions $(m,u,h)$ solving the associated variational inequality, with $m \in L^{β+1}(Ω)$, $u \in W^{1,γ}(Ω)$, and $h$ in the dual trace space on $Γ_D$.
title A Monotone Operator Approach to Separable Mean-Field Games with Mixed Boundary Conditions
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01681