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ESAIM: COCV
Volume 22, Number 2, April-June 2016
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Page(s) | 562 - 580 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2015029 | |
Published online | 06 April 2016 |
Time-dependent mean-field games in the superquadratic case
1
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), CEMSE
Division and KAUST SRI, Center for Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science
and Engineering, 23955-6900
Thuwal. Saudi
Arabia
diogo.gomes@kaust.edu.sa
2
Universidade Federal do São Carlos, Department of
Mathematics, 13560-250
São Carlos - SP, Brazil
edgrad@ufscar.br
3
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México. DF 04510
México, México.
hector@matem.unam.mx
Received:
9
October
2014
Revised:
15
April
2015
We investigate time-dependent mean-field games with superquadratic Hamiltonians and a power dependence on the measure. Such problems pose substantial mathematical challenges as key techniques used in the subquadratic case, which was studied in a previous publication of the authors, do not extend to the superquadratic setting. The main objective of the present paper is to address these difficulties. Because of the superquadratic structure of the Hamiltonian, Lipschitz estimates for the solutions of the Hamilton−Jacobi equation are obtained here through a novel set of techniques. These explore the parabolic nature of the problem through the nonlinear adjoint method. Well-posedness is proven by combining Lipschitz regularity for the Hamilton−Jacobi equation with polynomial estimates for solutions of the Fokker−Planck equation. Existence of classical solutions is then established under conditions depending only on the growth of the Hamiltonian and the dimension. Our results also add to current understanding of superquadratic Hamilton−Jacobi equations.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35A01 / 35A09 / 35K10 / 35J60
Key words: Mean-field games / initial terminal value problem / superquadratic Hamiltonians / nonlinear adjoint method
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