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I will repost the question, because i made another mistake. This comes from a real world problem and i now trying to put the problem in mathematical terms. I am really sorry again.
Actually, i made a mistake. It is not true that P_i,null >0 for all states i (only for some). I therefore modified the text and erased that property. I am sorry.