Game Theory and Partial Differential Equations

Game Theory and Partial Differential Equations
Author: Pablo Blanc
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3110621797

Extending the well-known connection between classical linear potential theory and probability theory (through the interplay between harmonic functions and martingales) to the nonlinear case of tug-of-war games and their related partial differential equations, this unique book collects several results in this direction and puts them in an elementary perspective in a lucid and self-contained fashion.

Emerging Applications of Differential Equations and Game Theory

Emerging Applications of Differential Equations and Game Theory
Author: Alparslan Gök, S?rma Zeynep
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1799801365

Branches of mathematics and advanced mathematical algorithms can help solve daily problems throughout various fields of applied sciences. Domains like economics, mechanical engineering, and multi-person decision making benefit from the inclusion of mathematics to maximize utility and cooperation across disciplines. There is a need for studies seeking to understand the theories and practice of using differential mathematics to increase efficiency and order in the modern world. Emerging Applications of Differential Equations and Game Theory is a collection of innovative research that examines the recent advancements on interdisciplinary areas of applied mathematics. While highlighting topics such as artificial neuron networks, stochastic optimization, and dynamical systems, this publication is ideally designed for engineers, cryptologists, economists, computer scientists, business managers, mathematicians, mechanics, academicians, researchers, and students.

Stochastic and Differential Games

Stochastic and Differential Games
Author: Martino Bardi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1999-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780817640293

The theory of two-person, zero-sum differential games started at the be­ ginning of the 1960s with the works of R. Isaacs in the United States and L. S. Pontryagin and his school in the former Soviet Union. Isaacs based his work on the Dynamic Programming method. He analyzed many special cases of the partial differential equation now called Hamilton­ Jacobi-Isaacs-briefiy HJI-trying to solve them explicitly and synthe­ sizing optimal feedbacks from the solution. He began a study of singular surfaces that was continued mainly by J. Breakwell and P. Bernhard and led to the explicit solution of some low-dimensional but highly nontriv­ ial games; a recent survey of this theory can be found in the book by J. Lewin entitled Differential Games (Springer, 1994). Since the early stages of the theory, several authors worked on making the notion of value of a differential game precise and providing a rigorous derivation of the HJI equation, which does not have a classical solution in most cases; we mention here the works of W. Fleming, A. Friedman (see his book, Differential Games, Wiley, 1971), P. P. Varaiya, E. Roxin, R. J. Elliott and N. J. Kalton, N. N. Krasovskii, and A. I. Subbotin (see their book Po­ sitional Differential Games, Nauka, 1974, and Springer, 1988), and L. D. Berkovitz. A major breakthrough was the introduction in the 1980s of two new notions of generalized solution for Hamilton-Jacobi equations, namely, viscosity solutions, by M. G. Crandall and P. -L.

Handbook of Dynamic Game Theory

Handbook of Dynamic Game Theory
Author: Tamer Basar
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 19??
Genre: Differential games
ISBN: 9783319273358

Résumé : "This will be a two-part handbook on Dynamic Game Theory and part of the Springer Reference program. Part I will be on the fundamentals and theory of dynamic games. It will serve as a quick reference and a source of detailed exposure to topics in dynamic games for a broad community of researchers, educators, practitioners, and students. Each topic will be covered in 2-3 chapters with one introducing basic theory and the other one or two covering recent advances and/or special topics. Part II will be on applications in fields such as economics, management science, engineering, biology, and the social sciences."

The Master Equation and the Convergence Problem in Mean Field Games

The Master Equation and the Convergence Problem in Mean Field Games
Author: Pierre Cardaliaguet
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0691190712

This book describes the latest advances in the theory of mean field games, which are optimal control problems with a continuum of players, each of them interacting with the whole statistical distribution of a population. While it originated in economics, this theory now has applications in areas as diverse as mathematical finance, crowd phenomena, epidemiology, and cybersecurity. Because mean field games concern the interactions of infinitely many players in an optimal control framework, one expects them to appear as the limit for Nash equilibria of differential games with finitely many players as the number of players tends to infinity. This book rigorously establishes this convergence, which has been an open problem until now. The limit of the system associated with differential games with finitely many players is described by the so-called master equation, a nonlocal transport equation in the space of measures. After defining a suitable notion of differentiability in the space of measures, the authors provide a complete self-contained analysis of the master equation. Their analysis includes the case of common noise problems in which all the players are affected by a common Brownian motion. They then go on to explain how to use the master equation to prove the mean field limit. This groundbreaking book presents two important new results in mean field games that contribute to a unified theoretical framework for this exciting and fast-developing area of mathematics.

Differential Games and Applications

Differential Games and Applications
Author: Tamer S. Basar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-03-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9783662168660

This volume contains fifteen articles on the topic of differential and dynamic games, focusing on both theory and applications. It covers a variety of areas and presents recent developments on topics of current interest. It should be useful to researchers in differential and dynamic games, systems and control, operations research and mathematical economics.

Partial Differential Equations in Economics and Finance

Partial Differential Equations in Economics and Finance
Author: Suren Basov
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781600217067

This book reviews the basic theory of partial differential equations of the first and second order and discusses their applications in economics and finance. It starts with well-known applications to consumer and producer theory, and to the theory of option pricing and then introduces new applications that emerge from current research (some of which is the author's own) in bounded rationality, game theory, and multi-dimensional screening.

Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games with Applications II

Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games with Applications II
Author: René Carmona
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319564366

This two-volume book offers a comprehensive treatment of the probabilistic approach to mean field game models and their applications. The book is self-contained in nature and includes original material and applications with explicit examples throughout, including numerical solutions. Volume II tackles the analysis of mean field games in which the players are affected by a common source of noise. The first part of the volume introduces and studies the concepts of weak and strong equilibria, and establishes general solvability results. The second part is devoted to the study of the master equation, a partial differential equation satisfied by the value function of the game over the space of probability measures. Existence of viscosity and classical solutions are proven and used to study asymptotics of games with finitely many players. Together, both Volume I and Volume II will greatly benefit mathematical graduate students and researchers interested in mean field games. The authors provide a detailed road map through the book allowing different access points for different readers and building up the level of technical detail. The accessible approach and overview will allow interested researchers in the applied sciences to obtain a clear overview of the state of the art in mean field games.

Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games with Applications I

Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games with Applications I
Author: René Carmona
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319589202

This two-volume book offers a comprehensive treatment of the probabilistic approach to mean field game models and their applications. The book is self-contained in nature and includes original material and applications with explicit examples throughout, including numerical solutions. Volume I of the book is entirely devoted to the theory of mean field games without a common noise. The first half of the volume provides a self-contained introduction to mean field games, starting from concrete illustrations of games with a finite number of players, and ending with ready-for-use solvability results. Readers are provided with the tools necessary for the solution of forward-backward stochastic differential equations of the McKean-Vlasov type at the core of the probabilistic approach. The second half of this volume focuses on the main principles of analysis on the Wasserstein space. It includes Lions' approach to the Wasserstein differential calculus, and the applications of its results to the analysis of stochastic mean field control problems. Together, both Volume I and Volume II will greatly benefit mathematical graduate students and researchers interested in mean field games. The authors provide a detailed road map through the book allowing different access points for different readers and building up the level of technical detail. The accessible approach and overview will allow interested researchers in the applied sciences to obtain a clear overview of the state of the art in mean field games.

Mean Field Games and Mean Field Type Control Theory

Mean Field Games and Mean Field Type Control Theory
Author: Alain Bensoussan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461485088

​Mean field games and Mean field type control introduce new problems in Control Theory. The terminology “games” may be confusing. In fact they are control problems, in the sense that one is interested in a single decision maker, whom we can call the representative agent. However, these problems are not standard, since both the evolution of the state and the objective functional is influenced but terms which are not directly related to the state or the control of the decision maker. They are however, indirectly related to him, in the sense that they model a very large community of agents similar to the representative agent. All the agents behave similarly and impact the representative agent. However, because of the large number an aggregation effect takes place. The interesting consequence is that the impact of the community can be modeled by a mean field term, but when this is done, the problem is reduced to a control problem. ​