Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

P. J. Graber - A. R. Mészáros - F. Silva - D. Tonon

The planning problem in Mean Field Games as regularized mass transport

created by mészáros on 18 Nov 2018
modified on 25 May 2019

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Accepted Paper

Inserted: 18 nov 2018
Last Updated: 25 may 2019

Journal: Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations
Year: 2019
Notes:

Section 3 (in the previous version) was removed upon the suggestion of the referee.


Abstract:

In this paper, using variational approaches, we investigate the first order planning problem arising in the theory of mean field games. We show the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the problem in the case of a large class of Hamiltonians with arbitrary superlinear order of growth at infinity and local coupling functions. We require the initial and final measures to be merely summable. At the same time (relying on the techniques developed recently by Graber and M\'esz\'aros), under stronger monotonicity and convexity conditions on the data, we obtain Sobolev estimates on the solutions of the planning problem both for space and time derivatives.


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