Mean Field Games of Controls: on the convergence of Nash equilibria

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a class of mean field games where the mean field interactions are achieved through the joint (conditional) distribution of the controlled state and the control process. The strategies are of open\;loop type, and the volatility coefficient σ can be controlled. Using (controlled) Fokker-Planck equations, we introduce a notion of measure-valued solution of mean-field games of controls, and through convergence results, prove a relation between these solutions on the one hand, and the εN--Nash equilibria on the other hand. It is shown that εN--Nash equilibria in the N--player games have limits as N tends to infinity, and each limit is a measure-valued solution of the mean-field games of controls. Conversely, any measure-valued solution can be obtained as the limit of a sequence of εN--Nash equilibria in the N--player games. In other words, the measure-valued solutions are the accumulating points of εN--Nash equilibria. Similarly, by considering an ε--strong solution of mean field games of controls which is the classical strong solution where the optimality is obtained by admitting a small error ε, we prove that the measure-valued solutions are the accumulating points of this type of solutions when ε goes to zero. Finally, existence of measure-valued solution of mean-field games of controls are proved in the case without common noise.