ZERO-SUM AVERAGE PAYOFF STOCHASTIC GAMES WITH GENERAL STATE-SPACE

In this paper, we provide some conditions under which zero-sum average payoff stochastic games with a Borel state space have a value and the players possess optimal stationary strategies. One contains as specia l cases various ergodicity assumptions considered recently in the theo ry of Markov decision processes. We also consider games with state ind ependent transition probabilities. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.