Collective Evolution Under Catastrophes

DOI10.1080/00029890.2023.2261828MaRDI QIDQ6144633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rinaldo Schinazi

Publication date 8 January 2024

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00751

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

Abstract: We introduce the following discrete time model. Each natural number represents an ecological niche and is assigned a fitness in $(0,1)$. All the sites are updated simultaneously at every discrete time. At any given time the environment may be normal with probability $p$ or a catastrophe may occur with probability $1-p$. If the environment is normal the fitness of each site is replaced by the maximum of its current fitness and a random number. If there is a catastrophe the fitness of each site is replaced by a random number. We compute the joint fitness distribution of any finite number of sites at any fixed time. We also show convergence of this system to a stationary distribution. This too is computed explicitly.

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