Abstract:
Discrete time Markov decition chain with average reward criterion is considered.
It is proved that if the state space is finite and the sets of actions are measurable subsets
of Polish space, then there exist non-randomized Markov $\varepsilon$-optimal policies. An example
showing that there exists a Markov decition chain with countable state space and finite
sets of actions such that randomized Markov $\varepsilon$-optimal policies for this chain don't
exist is constructed.