{"title":"Mean field games of controls: Propagation of monotonicities","authors":"Chenchen Mou, Jianfeng Zhang","doi":"10.3934/puqr.2022015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The theory of Mean Field Game of Controls considers a class of mean field games where the interaction is through the joint distribution of the state and control. It is well known that, for standard mean field games, certain monotonicity conditions are crucial to guarantee the uniqueness of mean field equilibria and then the global wellposedness for master equations. In the literature the monotonicity condition could be the Lasry–Lions monotonicity, the displacement monotonicity, or the anti-monotonicity conditions. In this paper, we investigate these three types of monotonicity conditions for Mean Field Games of Controls and show their propagation along the solutions to the master equations with common noises. In particular, we extend the displacement monotonicity to semi-monotonicity, whose propagation result is new even for standard mean field games. This is the first step towards the global wellposedness theory for master equations of Mean Field Games of Controls.","PeriodicalId":42330,"journal":{"name":"Probability Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Probability Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3934/puqr.2022015","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"STATISTICS & PROBABILITY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The theory of Mean Field Game of Controls considers a class of mean field games where the interaction is through the joint distribution of the state and control. It is well known that, for standard mean field games, certain monotonicity conditions are crucial to guarantee the uniqueness of mean field equilibria and then the global wellposedness for master equations. In the literature the monotonicity condition could be the Lasry–Lions monotonicity, the displacement monotonicity, or the anti-monotonicity conditions. In this paper, we investigate these three types of monotonicity conditions for Mean Field Games of Controls and show their propagation along the solutions to the master equations with common noises. In particular, we extend the displacement monotonicity to semi-monotonicity, whose propagation result is new even for standard mean field games. This is the first step towards the global wellposedness theory for master equations of Mean Field Games of Controls.
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Probability, Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk (PUQR) is a quarterly academic journal under the supervision of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and hosted by Shandong University, which is open to the public at home and abroad (ISSN 2095-9672; CN 37-1505/O1).
Probability, Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk (PUQR) mainly reports on the major developments in modern probability theory, covering stochastic analysis and statistics, stochastic processes, dynamical analysis and control theory, and their applications in the fields of finance, economics, biology, and computer science. The journal is currently indexed in ESCI, Scopus, Mathematical Reviews, zbMATH Open and other databases.