On the scaling theorem for interacting Fleming-Viot processes (Q1174264)

Interacting Fleming-Viot processes were constructed by \textit{J. Vaillancourt} [ibid. 36, No. 1, 45-57 (1990; Zbl 0729.92017)] to model the continuous-state-space evolution of allelic frequencies in a finite number of selectively neutral genetic populations, which are collectively undergoing independent mutation and correlated random genetic drift with fixed rates. Those probability measure-valued processes were shown to approach a finite system of interacting particles when appropriately rescaled, in the sense of convergence of the finite-dimensional distributions. The present paper extends this result to weak convergence of processes on a space of càdlàg trajectories. The proof of tightness is unusual in that it relies strongly on the properties of dual processes for the rescaled sequence.