Mean-field games with common Poissonian noise: A maximum principle approach

The theory of mean-field games is concerned with the behavior of interacting particle systems in which the individual interaction between particles (players) decreases as the size of the population increases. In recent years, an interesting structure for these types of games was introduced, assuming a correlated continuous source of randomness, which are called mean-field games with common noise. In this paper, we extend this concept and provide a precise definition of a mean-field game with common poissoninan noise and its equilibrium. That is, a common self-exciting Poissonian structure is considered within the dynamics of the population. Then, we address the problem of optimization for jump-diffusions with random environments that lies within the definition of the MFG, and develop a stochastic version of the Pontryagin's maximum principle to obtain a set of necessary conditions that an optimal control must satisfy. Under additional convexity assumptions, it is also shown that these conditions are sufficient.