Abstract
A new look at a class of existence results in dynamic programming under the expected utility---or pÌ„-optimality---criterion is afforded by embedding the policies in an abstract L∞-space Balder, E. J. 1979. On a useful compactification for optimal control theory. J. Math. Anal. Appl.72 391--398; Balder, E. J. 1981. Relaxed inf-compactness for variational problems by Hilbert cube compactification. J. Math. Anal. Appl.79 1--12; Balder, E. J. 1981. Lower semicontinuity of integral functionals with nonconvex integrands by relaxation-compactification. SIAM J. Control Optim.19 533--542.. The results obtained in this way form a generalization of Schäl, M. 1975. On dynamic programming: Compactness of the space of policies. Stochastic Processes Appl.3 345--364, §5.

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