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Lipschitz continuous policy functions for strongly concave optimization problems
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    Lipschitz continuous policy functions for strongly concave optimization problems (English)
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    We prove that the policy function, obtained by optimizing a discounted infinite sum of stationary return functions, is Lipschitz continuous when the instantaneous function is strongly concave. Moreover, by using the notion of \(\alpha\)-concavity, we provide an estimate of the Lipschitz constant which turns out to be a decreasing function of the discount factor.
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    discounted infinite sum of stationary return functions
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    Lipschitz continuous
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    \(\alpha \)-concavity
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