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This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grant GP-24490.
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Mertens, JF. Strongly supermedian functions and optimal stopping. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 26, 119–139 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00533481
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