Stability Analysis of a Non-Separable Mean-Field Games for Pedestrian Flow in Large Corridors

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the stability of constant pedestrian flow states in a generalized Hughes model within large corridors, showing stability at low densities and highlighting challenges at higher densities due to wave phenomena.

Contribution

It provides a stability analysis for a non-separable mean-field game model of pedestrian flow, establishing conditions for stability and constructing explicit solutions using Fourier analysis.

Findings

Stable perturbations when density < ρ_m/2

Explicit solutions for linearized problem

Challenges in stability at higher densities

Abstract

We investigate the existence and stability of small perturbations of constant states of the generalized Hughes model for pedestrian flow in an infinitely large corridor. We show that constant flows are stable under a condition on the density. Our findings indicates that when the density is less than half of the maximum density $\rho_{m}/2$, which is the Lasry-Lions monotonicity condition, we can control the perturbation and prove positive stability results for the nonlinear Generalized Hughes model. However, due to wave propagation phenomena, we are unable to provide an answer for stability results when the density is higher. Our approach involves constructing an explicit solution for the linear problem in Fourier analysis and demonstrating, through a fixed-point argument, how to construct the solution for the full nonlinear mean-field games system.