Value iteration in a class of average controlled Markov chains with unbounded costs: necessary and sufficient conditions for pointwise convergence

DOI10.2307/3214980zbMath0869.93054OpenAlexW4255849103MaRDI QIDQ3122864

Emmanuel Fernández-Gaucherand, Rolando Cavazos-Cadena

Publication date: 5 March 1997

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3214980

zbMATH Keywords

necessary and sufficient optimality conditionsaverage costLyapunov conditioncontrolled Markov chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal stochastic control (93E20) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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