On non-uniqueness and uniqueness of solutions in finite-horizon Mean Field Games

ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Volumn 25, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Bardi, Martino ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Finite horizon; Mean Field Games; Multipopulation MFG; Non uniqueness of solutions; Uniqueness of solutions

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION;

CURRENT THEORIES; FINITE HORIZONS; MEAN FIELD GAMES; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; NEW RESULTS; NONUNIQUENESS; TIME HORIZONS; UNIQUENESS OF SOLUTION;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 85084110006     PISSN: 12928119     EISSN: 12623377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2018026     Document Type: Article

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