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Short Communications
Optimal stopping in games with continuous time
Yu. I. Kifer Moscow
Abstract:
Let (
$\Omega$,
$\mathscr F$,
$\mathbf P$) be a probability space,
$T$ a subset of
$[0,\infty)$ such that there exists a countable set
$R$,
$R\subset T$, and the union of
$R$ and the set of all limits from the right over
$R$ coincides with
$T$. Let
$\{\mathscr F_t,\ t\in T\}$ be a non-decreasing and right-continuous in
$t$ family of
$\sigma$-subalgebras of
$\mathscr F$ and
$x_t$,
$\varphi_t$,
$\psi_t$ right-continuous in
$t$ $\mathscr F_t$-measurable functions. The process
$x_t$ may be stopped by the first player at a moment
$t$ if
$\varphi_t=1$ and by the second one if
$\psi_t=1$. The second player gets from the first one the sum
$x_t$ if the process is stopped at time
$t$.
Suppose that
$\mathbf M(\sup\limits_t|x_t|)<\infty$; then we prove that there exists a
$w_t$ such that
(a)
$w_t=\overline w_t=\underline w_t$ a.e.,
$\overline w_t$ and
$\underline w_t$ being defined by (1) and (2);
(b) the policies $\eta_\varepsilon^s=\inf\{t\colon t\ge s,\ \varphi_t=1,\ x_t<w_t+\varepsilon\}$ and $\theta_\varepsilon^s=\inf\{t\colon t\ge s,\ \psi_t=1,\ x_t>w_t-\varepsilon\}$ are
$\varepsilon$-optimal.
Received: 10.11.1969