Balanced growth path solutions of a Boltzmann mean field game model for knowledge growth

Kinetic and Related Models

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 117-140

  Burger, Martin ^a   Lorz, Alexander ^b,c,d   Wolfram, Marie Therese ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f JOHANN RADON INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Boltzmann type equations; Hamilton Jacobi equations; Mean field games; Travelling wave solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010206619     PISSN: 19375093     EISSN: 19375077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/krm.2017005     Document Type: Article

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