Before revision:  The method is grounded in recent work by Braverman et al (2020 ) that relates the solution of the Bellman equation to that of a PDE where, in the spirit of the central limit theorem, the transition matrix is reduced to its local first and second moments.
After revision:  The method is grounded in recent work Braverman et al (2020 ) that relates the solution of the Bellman equation to that of a PDE where, in the spirit of the central limit theorem, the transition matrix is reduced to its local first and second moments.