I'll try to state the problem as succinctly as I can and afterwards I'll give some motivation for it. Given a measurable space $(S, \Sigma)$, the set $P(S)$ of probability measures on $S$ also is a measurable space with $\sigma$-algebra generated by the sets $$ \beta (<q,Q) \doteq \{ \mu\in P(S) : \mu (Q)<q\} $$ with $Q\in\Sigma $ and $q $ a rational. A _Markov kernel_ is a measurable map $\tau: S\to P(S)$, and a _nondeterministic kernel_ is, in turn, a function $T: S\to \mathrm{Pow}(P(S))$ such that for each measurable set of measures $ \xi\subseteq P(S)$, the set $\{s : T_a(s) \cap \xi \neq \emptyset\} $ is in $\Sigma$. I'm mainly interested in the case where all the sets $T (s)$ are countable. It can be shown that if the sets $T(s)$ are __finite__ then they are of the form $$ \{ \tau_n(s): n \in\mathbb{N}\}, $$ where each $\tau_n$ is a Markov kernel. Note that, although we have a sequence of kernels, for each $s$ we might nevertheless have a finite set of _measures._ This follows from Kuratowski & Ryll-Nardzewski [selection theorem](http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Selection_theorems#Comments). For the sake of simplicity, assume that for all $s$ we have $|T(s)|=2$. >__Question.__ Can one do with just two Markov kernels? Or finitely many? That is, given a nondeterministic kernel $T$ with $|T(s)|=2$ for all $s$, are there finitely Markov kernels $\tau_n$ ($1\leq n \leq N $) such that $$ T(s)=\{ \tau_n(s): 1\leq n \leq N \}? $$ --- **Background.** In Computer Science, *Markov decision processes* have been used to model situations where a user interacts with a system having probabilistic behaviour. The *labelled* Markov DPs have a measurable space $(S, \Sigma)$ as its set of states and for each $a $ in a set $L $ of labels, a _transition probability_, i.e., a function $\tau_a: S\times\Sigma\to [0,1] $ such that $\tau_a(s,\cdot): \Sigma\to [0,1] $ is a probability measure on $S$ for each $s $ and $\tau_a(\cdot,Q): S\to [0,1] $ is a measurable map for each $Q $. This is exactly the same as a Markov kernel. There is nondeterministic version of labelled Markov processs (i.e., a probabilistic generalization of Kripke frames or [labeled transition systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_system#Formal_definition)) for which the main ingredient is an indexed family $T_a$ ($a\in L$) of nondeterministic kernels. Associated to these processes we have a _modal logic_ that allows to express properties of the form _“there is a transition with label $a$ such that the probability to reach a state in which the property $\phi$ holds is less than $q$”._ This is written as $\langle a\rangle_q \phi$, and a state satisfies this formula if belongs to the set $$ \{s : T_a(s) \cap \beta (<q,[\!| \phi |\!])\neq \emptyset\}, $$ where $[\!| \phi |\!]$ is the set of states that satisfy $\phi$. When one wants to express more complex properties, such that $\langle b\rangle_p\langle a\rangle_q \phi$, one needs to require the measurability condition on kernels discussed above.