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A functional equation arising in dynamic programming

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In this paper, we utilize some fixed point theorems of contractive type to present a few existence and uniqueness theorems for a functional equation arising in dynamic programming of continuous multistage decision processes.

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  1. Mathematics Department, Aleksander Xhuvani University, Elbasan, Albania

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Kaliaj, S.B. A functional equation arising in dynamic programming. Aequat. Math. 91, 635–645 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-017-0495-6

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