Control of McKean-Vlasov dynamics versus mean field games

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DOI10.1007/S11579-012-0089-YzbMATH Open1269.91012arXiv1210.5771OpenAlexW2048138547MaRDI QIDQ356473FDOQ356473

François Delarue, Aimé Lachapelle, René Carmona

Publication date: 25 July 2013

Published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss and compare two methods of investigations for the asymptotic regime of stochastic differential games with a finite number of players as the number of players tends to the infinity. These two methods differ in the order in which optimization and passage to the limit are performed. When optimizing first, the asymptotic problem is usually referred to as a mean-field game. Otherwise, it reads as an optimization problem over controlled dynamics of McKean-Vlasov type. Both problems lead to the analysis of forward-backward stochastic differential equations, the coefficients of which depend on the marginal distributions of the solutions. We explain the difference between the nature and solutions to the two approaches by investigating the corresponding forward-backward systems. General results are stated and specific examples are treated, especially when cost functionals are of linear-quadratic type.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5771




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