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Mat. Sb., 2015 Volume 206, Number 7, Pages 3–32 (Mi sm8380)

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A minimax approach to mean field games

Yu. V. Averboukhab

a Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg
b Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg

Abstract: An initial boundary value problem for the system of equations of a determined mean field game is considered. The proposed definition of a generalized solution is based on the minimax approach to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. We prove the existence of the generalized (minimax) solution using the Nash equilibrium in the auxiliary differential game with infinitely many identical players. We show that the minimax solution of the original system provides the $\varepsilon$-Nash equilibrium in the differential game with a finite number of players.
Bibliography: 34 titles.

Keywords: mean-field-games, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, minimax solution, Nash equilibrium, differential game with infinitely many players.

UDC: 517.978.4

MSC: Primary 91A06, 91A13, 91A23; Secondary 49N70

Received: 21.04.2014 and 22.01.2015

DOI: 10.4213/sm8380


 English version:
Sbornik: Mathematics, 2015, 206:7, 893–920

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