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Optimal stopping problems for Brownian motion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

John Bather*
Affiliation:
University of Sussex

Extract

This paper is concerned with the general problem of choosing an optimal stopping time for a Brownian motion process, where the cost associated with any trajectory depends only on its final time and position.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1970 

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