Existence of solutions to contact mean-field games of first order

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Abstract: This paper deals with the existence of solutions of a class of contact mean field games systems of first order. Cardaliaguet cite{CAR} found a link between the weak KAM theory for Hamiltonian systems and mean field games systems. We prove that there is still a connection between the weak KAM theory for contact Hamiltonian systems and contact mean field games systems. By the analysis of properties of the Mather set for contact Hamiltonian systems, we prove the main existence result.


The authors study a system of stationary first-order mean field games of so-called ``contact type (System (1.5) in the paper). Roughly speaking, the ``contact arises from the fact that the Hamiltonian has a general dependence on the value function as well (contrary to Hamiltonians depending solely on the position and momentum). An important example in this context is the so-called discounted Hamiltonians. The main ingredient in the analysis of this system is a contact Hamiltonian system (System (1.6) in the paper). Such systems received some attention recently in the context of the Aubry-Mather theory (see [\textit{K. Wang} et al., Commun. Math. Phys. 366, No. 3, 981--1023 (2019; Zbl 1429.37034)]). In their analysis, the authors rely on elements from weak KAM theory. The main results of the paper can be found in Theorem 1, which establishes the existence of a solution to the contact mean field game system, under suitable assumptions on the data. Some dynamical properties of these solutions are also established, and in particular a characterization via Mather measures is also given.



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