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Keywords:
Markov jump processes; Feller process; inspections and maintenance; quasi-variational inequality; viscosity solutions
Summary:
The paper deals with the optimal inspections and maintenance problem with costly information for a Markov process with positive discount factor. The associated dynamic programming equation is a quasi-variational inequality with first order differential terms. In this paper we study its different formulations: strong, visousity and evolutionary. The case of impulsive control of purely jump Markov processes is studied as a special case.
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