Tug-of-war games with varying probabilities and the normalized p(x)-laplacian

Ángel Arroyo; Joonas Heino; Mikko Parviainen

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2017044

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2017, Volume 16, Issue 3: 915-944. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2017044

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Tug-of-war games with varying probabilities and the normalized p(x)-laplacian

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Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland

Received: August 2016

Revised: December 2016

Published: January 2018

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We study a two player zero-sum tug-of-war game with varying probabilities that depend on the game location x. In particular, we show that the value of the game is locally asymptotically Hölder continuous. The main difficulty is the loss of translation invariance. We also show the existence and uniqueness of values of the game. As an application, we prove that the value function of the game converges to a viscosity solution of the normalized p(x) -Laplacian.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35J60, 35J92, 35B65, 91A15.

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