Random Stopping Times in Stopping Problems and Stopping Games

Three notions of random stopping times exist in the literature. We introduce two concepts of equivalence of random stopping times, motivated by optimal stopping problems and stopping games respectively. We prove that these two concepts coincide and that the three notions of random stopping times are equivalent.

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