Well-posedness of McKean-Vlasov SDEs with density-dependent drift

TL;DR

This paper establishes the well-posedness of McKean-Vlasov SDEs with density-dependent drifts under certain regularity conditions, using mollifier approximation techniques to prove existence and uniqueness.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach for proving well-posedness of density-dependent McKean-Vlasov SDEs, including strong existence and uniqueness results under specific conditions.

Findings

Proved strong existence of solutions.

Established weak and strong uniqueness when p=1 with bounded drift.

Demonstrated the effectiveness of mollifier approximation methods.

Abstract

In this paper, we study well-posedness of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDE) whose drift depends pointwisely on marginal density and satisfies a local integrability condition in time-space variables. The drift and noise coefficients are assumed to be Lipschitz continuous in distribution variable with respect to Wasserstein metric $W_p$. Our approach is by approximation with mollifiers. We prove strong existence of a solution. Weak and strong uniqueness are obtained when $p=1$, the drift coefficient is bounded, and the diffusion coefficient is distribution free.