June 2022 Quantum mean-field games
Vassili N. Kolokoltsov
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Ann. Appl. Probab. 32(3): 2254-2288 (June 2022). DOI: 10.1214/21-AAP1733

Abstract

In this paper we are merging the two new branches of game theory: quantum games and mean-field games (MFG). Building a quantum analog of MFGs requires the full reconstruction of its foundations and methodology, because in N-particle quantum evolution particles are not separated in individual dynamics and the key concept of the classical MFG theory, the empirical measure defined as the sum of Dirac masses of the positions of the players, is not applicable in quantum setting.

As a preliminary result we derive the new nonlinear stochastic Schrödinger equation, as the limit of the quantum filtering equation describing continuously observed and controlled system of a large number of interacting particles, the result that may have an independent value. We then show that to a control quantum system of interacting particles there corresponds a special system of classical interacting particles with the identical limiting MFG system, defined on an appropriate Riemanian manifold. Solutions of this system are shown to specify approximate Nash equilibria for N-agent quantum games.

Acknowledgments

The author is also affiliated with Higher School of Economics RF, and this article was prepared within the framework of the HSE University Basic Research Program.

The author is grateful to the anonymous referees for carefully reading the first draft of the manuscript and making lots of useful comments and suggestions.

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Vassili N. Kolokoltsov. "Quantum mean-field games." Ann. Appl. Probab. 32 (3) 2254 - 2288, June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AAP1733

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Received: 1 May 2020; Revised: 1 April 2021; Published: June 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 29 May 2022

MathSciNet: MR4430013
zbMATH: 1498.91098
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/21-AAP1733

Subjects:
Primary: 81Q93 , 91A06 , 91A15 , 93E11 , 93E20

Keywords: Belavkin equation , controlled diffusion on Riemannian manifolds , Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation on manifolds , Mean field games , Mild solutions , nonlinear stochastic Schrödinger equation , quantum control , Quantum dynamic games , quantum filtering , quantum interacting particles

Rights: Copyright © 2022 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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