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Dynamic programming with homogeneous functions. (English) Zbl 0910.90266

Summary: We show that the basic existence, uniqueness, and convergence results of dynamic programming hold when the return function is homogeneous of degree \(0\leq 1\) and the constraints are homogeneous of degree one.

MSC:

90C39 Dynamic programming

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