On solutions of mean field games with ergodic cost

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 205-251

  Arapostathis, Ari ^a   Biswas, Anup ^b   Carroll, Johnson ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Convergence of equilibria; Ergodic control; Mckean Vlasov limit; N person games; Nash equilibrium; Relative value iteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979687686     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matpur.2016.06.004     Document Type: Article

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