# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2020025

## Linear-quadratic-Gaussian mean-field-game with partial observation and common noise

 1 International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas and School of Data Sciences, City University of Hong Kong 2 Zhongtai Securities Institute for Financial Studies, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China 3 Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Received  January 2019 Revised  February 2020 Published  May 2020

This paper considers a class of linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) mean-field games (MFGs) with partial observation structure for individual agents. Unlike other literature, there are some special features in our formulation. First, the individual state is driven by some common-noise due to the external factor and the state-average thus becomes a random process instead of a deterministic quantity. Second, the sensor function of individual observation depends on state-average thus the agents are coupled in triple manner: not only in their states and cost functionals, but also through their observation mechanism. The decentralized strategies for individual agents are derived by the Kalman filtering and separation principle. The consistency condition is obtained which is equivalent to the wellposedness of some forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) driven by common noise. Finally, the related $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium property is verified.

Citation: Alain Bensoussan, Xinwei Feng, Jianhui Huang. Linear-quadratic-Gaussian mean-field-game with partial observation and common noise. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2020025
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Trajectories of the type-1 agents' states when N = 500
Trajectories of the type-2 agents' states when N = 500
Trajectories of the type-1 agents state average and the mean field term
Trajectories of the type-2 agents state average and the mean field term
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