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Cavazos-Cadena, Rolando. Weak conditions for the existence of optimal stationary policies in average Markov decision chains with unbounded costs. Kybernetika, Tome 25 (1989) no. 3, pp. 145-156. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/KYB_1989_25_3_a0/

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