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Blackwell Optimality for Controlled Diffusion Processes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
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In this paper we study m-discount optimality (m ≥ −1) and Blackwell optimality for a general class of controlled (Markov) diffusion processes. To this end, a key step is to express the expected discounted reward function as a Laurent series, and then search certain control policies that lexicographically maximize the mth coefficient of this series for m = −1,0,1,…. This approach naturally leads to m-discount optimality and it gives Blackwell optimality in the limit as m → ∞.
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