Existence and Blow-up Profiles of Ground States in Second Order Multi-population Mean-field Games Systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the existence, classification, and blow-up behavior of ground states in multi-population ergodic mean-field game systems with local couplings, revealing how solutions concentrate at potential minima as parameters approach critical values.

Contribution

It provides a variational framework to classify ground states and describes their blow-up profiles in multi-population mean-field games with critical exponents, including concentration phenomena.

Findings

Ground states exist under certain conditions on interaction coefficients.

As coefficients approach critical values, ground states blow up at potential minima.

Blow-up profiles are characterized by rescaled ground states of potential-free systems.

Abstract

In this paper, we utilize the variational structure to study the existence and asymptotic profiles of ground states in multi-population ergodic Mean-field Games systems subject to some local couplings with mass critical exponents. Of concern the attractive and repulsive interactions, we impose some mild conditions on trapping potentials and firstly classify the existence of ground states in terms of intra-population and interaction coefficients. Next, as the intra-population and inter-population coefficients approach some critical values, we show the ground states blow up at one of global minima of potential functions and the corresponding profiles are captured by ground states to potential-free Mean-field Games systems for single population up to translations and rescalings. Moreover, under certain types of potential functions, we establish the refined blow-up profiles of corresponding ground states. In particular, we show that the ground states concentrate at the flattest global minima of potentials.