Local regularity for mean-field games in the whole space

Diogo Aguiar Gomes, Edgard Almeida Pimentel

Published 2014-07-03, updated 2014-08-27Version 2

In this paper, we investigate the Sobolev regularity for mean-field games in the whole space $\Rr^d$. This is achieved by combining integrability for the solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation with estimates for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in Sobolev spaces. To avoid the mathematical challenges posed due to the lack of compactness, we prove an entropy dissipation estimate for the adjoint variable. This, together with the non-linear adjoint method, yields uniform estimates for solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in $W^{1,p}_{loc}(\Rr^d)$.