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We study a class of stochastic control problems where a cost of the form \begin{equation}\mathbb{E}\int_{[0,\infty)}e^{-\beta s}[\ell(X_s) ds+h(Y^{\circ}_s) d|Y|_s]\end{equation} is to be minimized over control processes $Y$ whose…

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