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We investigate the stability of equilibrium-induced optimal values with respect to (w.r.t.) reward functions $f$ and transition kernels $Q$ for time-inconsistent stopping problems under nonexponential discounting in discrete time. First,…

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The absence of recognizable, low energy quantum gravitational effects requires that some asymptotic series expansion be wonderfully accurate, but the correct expansion might involve logarithms or fractional powers of Newton's constant. That…

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