In this paper, we consider a mean field game (MFG) model perturbed by small common noise. Our goal is to give an approximation of the Nash equilibrium strategy of this game using a solution from the original no common noise MFG whose solution can be obtained through a coupled system of partial differential equations. We characterize the first order approximation via linear mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equations whose solution is a centered Gaussian process with respect to the common noise. The first order approximate strategy can be described as follows: at time , applying the original MFG optimal strategy for a sub game over with the initial being the current state and distribution. We then show that this strategy gives an approximate Nash equilibrium of order .
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