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Games for the two membranes problem

Alfredo Miranda and Julio D. Rossi

Vol. 1 (2024), No. 1, 59–101
Abstract

We find viscosity solutions to the two membranes problem (that is, a system with two obstacle-type equations) with two different p-Laplacian operators taking limits of value functions of a sequence of games. We analyze two-player zero-sum games that are played in two boards with different rules in each board. At each turn both players (one inside each board) have the choice of playing without changing board or changing to the other board (and then playing one round of the other game). We show that the value functions corresponding to this kind of game converge uniformly to a viscosity solution of the two membranes problem. If in addition the possibility of having the choice to change boards depends on a coin toss we show that we also have convergence of the value functions to the two membranes problem that is supplemented with an extra condition inside the coincidence set.

Keywords
two membranes problem, viscosity solutions, game theory
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 35J47, 35J60, 35J94
Milestones
Received: 11 April 2023
Revised: 25 September 2023
Accepted: 6 October 2023
Published: 26 November 2023
Authors
Alfredo Miranda
Departamento de Matemática
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Ciudad Universitaria
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Julio D. Rossi
Departamento de Matemática
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Ciudad Universitaria
Buenos Aires
Argentina