Bifurcations in the symmetric viability model with weak selection (Q2141677)

This paper is concerned with the symmetric viability model in population genetics, which considers the genetic structure and evolution of populations when having four alleles at two loci. The authors focus on ``the non-hyperbolic case of equilibria in the symmetric viability model with weak selection and their bifurcations''. They show ``that the system has at most 5 interior equilibria, 4 edge equilibria and 4 corner equilibria and give a complete qualitative analysis for all equilibria in both hyperbolic cases and non-hyperbolic cases, including the case of fully null degeneracy''. They display ``all bifurcations of equilibria such as pitchfork bifurcation, transcritical bifurcation and bifurcations at corner equilibria of fully null degeneracy, which is of codimension 2 but none of known results of codimension 2 can be applied to''. They further discuss ``the unfolding system of fully null degeneracy, displaying all its bifurcations and giving bifurcation curves analytically''.