Path-properties of the tree-valued Fleming-Viot process

DOI10.1214/EJP.V18-2514MaRDI QIDQ388976zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrej Depperschmidt, Andreas Greven, Peter Pfaffelhuber

Publication date 17 January 2014

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5386

zbMATH Keywords

selectionmutationKingman coalescentpath propertiestree-valued Fleming-Viot process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Superprocesses (60J68)

Abstract: We consider the tree-valued Fleming-Viot process, $(mathcal{X}_t{)}_{tgeq0}$, with mutation and selection as studied in Depperschmidt, Greven, Pfaffelhuber (2012). This process models the stochastic evolution of the genealogies and (allelic) types under resampling, mutation and selection in the population currently alive in the limit of infinitely large populations. Genealogies and types are described by (isometry classes of) marked metric measure spaces. The long-time limit of the neutral tree-valued Fleming-Viot dynamics is an equilibrium given via the marked metric measure space associated with the Kingman coalescent. In the present paper we pursue two closely linked goals. First, we show that two well-known properties of the neutral Fleming-Viot genealogies at fixed time $t$ arising from the properties of the dual, namely the Kingman coalescent, hold for the whole path. These properties are related to the geometry of the family tree close to its leaves. In particular we consider the number and the size of subfamilies whose individuals are not further than $ve$ apart in the limit $veo0$. Second, we answer two open questions about the sample paths of the tree-valued Fleming-Viot process. We show that for all $t>0$ almost surely the marked metric measure space $mathcal{X}_t$ has no atoms and admits a mark function. The latter property means that all individuals in the tree-valued Fleming-Viot process can uniquely be assigned a type. All main results are proven for the neutral case and then carried over to selective cases via Girsanov's formula giving absolute continuity.

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