Special Session 187: New Trends in Crowd Dynamics and Traffic Flow

Deterministic Mean Field Games with jumps
Annette Dumas
Universit\`e de Limoges, XLIM
France
Co-Author(s):    Filippo Santambrogio
Abstract:
The Mean Field Game we consider is motivated by the modelization of the housing dynamics where each inhabitant can move from one place to another. In particular, the trajectories of the agents are piecewise constant and they minimize a cost consisting in the number of jumps (or relocations) and two terms depending on the density: the first one is variational and the other one is non-variational. A Nash equilibrium for this mean field game is a measure over the curves minimizing a problem in a Lagrangian form which depends on the measure itself. To prove the existence of a Nash equilibrium, we reformulate the problem, thanks to an optimal transport result, in a Eulerian form for which we prove regularity results. The Eulerian formulation also allows us to perform numerical simulations thanks to a Fast Dual Proximal Gradient method for which the convergence of the iterations is guaranteed by Beck and Teboulle (2014). We will see that the mixed structure with the non-variational term in the problem enables us to consider more complex cost functions and also examples with two populations.