Article ID: | iaor2004727 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 458 |
End Page Number: | 467 |
Publication Date: | May 1997 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Yushkevich A.A. |
The background for this paper is a dynamic programming model with a Borel state space and compact action sets. A new simple proof of the compactness of a space of measures corresponding to randomized stationary policies is given, in a topology induced by Caratheodory functions on the state-action space. For this purpose an extension theorem for Caratheodory functions is proved, which is a new version of the Tietze's extension theorem for continuous functions.