November 2022 Mean field games master equations with nonseparable Hamiltonians and displacement monotonicity
Wilfrid Gangbo, Alpár R. Mészáros, Chenchen Mou, Jianfeng Zhang
Author Affiliations +
Ann. Probab. 50(6): 2178-2217 (November 2022). DOI: 10.1214/22-AOP1580

Abstract

In this manuscript we propose a structural condition on nonseparable Hamiltonians, which we term displacement monotonicity condition, to study second-order mean field games master equations. A rate of dissipation of a bilinear form is brought to bear a global (in time) well-posedness theory, based on a priori uniform Lipschitz estimates on the solution in the measure variable. Displacement monotonicity being sometimes in dichotomy with the widely used Lasry–Lions monotonicity condition, the novelties of this work persist even when restricted to separable Hamiltonians.

Funding Statement

The research of WG was supported by NSF Grant DMS-1700202 and Air Force Grant FA9550-18-1-0502. ARM was partially supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Research Funding (KRF) under Award No. ORA-2021-CRG10-4674.2. CM gratefully acknowledges the support by CityU Start-up Grant 7200684 and Hong Kong RGC Grant ECS 9048215. The research of JZ was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-1908665.

Acknowledgments

We thank the anonymous referees for their thoughtful comments which helped to improve our manuscript greatly.

Citation

Download Citation

Wilfrid Gangbo. Alpár R. Mészáros. Chenchen Mou. Jianfeng Zhang. "Mean field games master equations with nonseparable Hamiltonians and displacement monotonicity." Ann. Probab. 50 (6) 2178 - 2217, November 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AOP1580

Information

Received: 1 May 2021; Revised: 1 January 2022; Published: November 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 23 October 2022

MathSciNet: MR4499277
zbMATH: 1501.35403
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/22-AOP1580

Subjects:
Primary: 35R15 , 49N80 , 49Q22 , 60H30 , 91A16 , 93E20

Keywords: displacement monotonicity , Lasry–Lions monotonicity , master equation , Mean field games

Rights: Copyright © 2022 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

JOURNAL ARTICLE
40 PAGES

This article is only available to subscribers.
It is not available for individual sale.
+ SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

Vol.50 • No. 6 • November 2022
Back to Top