Local Minimizers in Second Order Mean-field Games Systems with Choquard Coupling

Abstract: Mean-field Games systems (MFGs) serve as paradigms to describe the games among a huge number of players. In this paper, we consider the ergodic Mean-field Games systems in the bounded domain with Neumann boundary conditions and the decreasing Choquard coupling. Our results provide sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions to MFGs with Choquard-type coupling. More specifically, in the mass-subcritical and critical regimes, the solutions are characterized as global minimizers of the associated energy functional. In the case of mass supercritical exponents, up to the Sobolev critical threshold, the solutions correspond to local minimizers. The proof is based on variational methods, in which the regularization approximation, convex duality argument, elliptic regularity and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality are comprehensively employed.