Selected Properties of Controlled Processes

The main purpose of this chapter is to present some properties of the controlled processes that are closely related to the optimal control problems considered in this book. In Sect. 2.1 , we rigorously show that under a natural Markov strategy \(\breve{\p

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Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes Borel Space Models and General Control Strategies

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Alexey Piunovskiy Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK

Yi Zhang Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK

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