arXiv (Cornell University) · 2011 · 72 citations · 45 references
Natural SciencesMathematicsDynamical SystemsGame TheoryStochastic ProcessesDynamic GamesLaw Of Large NumbersMarkov ProcessesNash EquilibriumNonlinear DynamicsStochastic GamesLévy - Khintchine FormulaMarkov GamesMarkov-process ApproximationMean Field AnalysisMean-field DynamicsMean-field ModelsMean-field Stochastic Differential EquationsMulti-player Stochastic Games
In this paper, we investigate the mean field games with $K$ classes of agents who are weakly coupled via the empirical measure. The underlying dynamics of the representative agents is assumed to be a controlled nonlinear Markov process associated with rather general integro-differential generators of Lévy-Khintchine type (with variable coefficients). We show that nonlinear measure-valued kinetic equations describing the dynamic law of large numbers limit for system with large number N of agents are solvable and that their solutions represent 1/N-Nash equilibria for approximating systems of N agents.
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