Lipschitz partition processes (Q2515503)

The author deals with a family of Markov processes on labeled partitions with a finite number of classes. Partition-valued Markov processes arise as mathematical models in population genetics and mathematical biology. \textit{W. J. Ewens} [Theor. Population Biology 3, 87--112 (1972; Zbl 0245.92009)], \textit{J. F. C. Kingman} [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 361, 1--20 (1978; Zbl 0393.92011)] and others have studied such processes with applications in phylogenetics and other domains. To describe a broader class of processes, the author incorporates ideas from the coagulation-fragmentation literature. These processes are called Lipschitz partition processes. The construction of the previous processes from Coag and Frag operators is provided. These operators are Lipschitz continuous and associative. A family of processes is defined by a repeated application of random Lipschitz continuous maps that act on the space of partitions.