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# A model problem for Mean Field Games on networks

• In [14], Guéant, Lasry and Lions considered the model problem What time does meeting start?'' as a prototype for a general class of optimization problems with a continuum of players, called Mean Field Games problems. In this paper we consider a similar model, but with the dynamics of the agents defined on a network. We discuss appropriate transition conditions at the vertices which give a well posed problem and we present some numerical results.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 91A15, 35R02; Secondary: 35B30, 49N70, 65M06.

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