Stability Analysis of Nonseparable Mean-Field Games for Pedestrian Flow in Large Corridors

Abstract. We investigate the existence and stability of small perturbations of constant states of the generalized Hughes (GH) model for pedestrian flow in an infinitely large corridor. We show that constant flows are stable under a condition on the density. Our findings indicate that when the density is less than half of the maximum density [Formula: see text], which is the Lasry–Lions monotonicity condition, we can control the perturbation and prove positive stability results for the nonlinear GH model. However, due to wave propagation phenomena, we are unable to provide an answer for stability results when the density is higher. Our approach involves constructing an explicit solution for the linear problem in Fourier analysis and demonstrating, through a fixed-point argument, how to construct the solution for the full nonlinear mean-field games system.