Branching Brownian motion, mean curvature flow and the motion of hybrid zones

DOI10.1214/17-EJP127zbMATH Open1386.60300arXiv1607.07563OpenAlexW2475653607MaRDI QIDQ1689846FDOQ1689846

Authors: Nic Freeman, Sarah Penington, Alison Etheridge 

Publication date: 18 January 2018

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

Abstract: We provide a probabilistic proof of a well known connection between a special case of the Allen-Cahn equation and mean curvature flow. We then prove a corresponding result for scaling limits of the spatial $Lambda$-Fleming-Viot process with selection, in which the selection mechanism is chosen to model what are known in population genetics as hybrid zones. Our proofs will exploit a duality with a system of branching (and coalescing) random walkers which is of some interest in its own right.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07563

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zbMATH Keywords

population geneticsmean curvature flowbranching Brownian motionhybrid zonesspatial \(\Lambda\)-Fleming-Viot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

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