Reflections on the extinction-explosion dichotomy

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2015.03.001MaRDI QIDQ2350247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mike Steel

Publication date 19 June 2015

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4713

zbMATH Keywords

Borel-Cantelli lemmacouplingextinctionMarkov chainpopulation size

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: A wide range of stochastic processes that model the growth and decline of populations exhibit a curious dichotomy: with certainty either the population goes extinct or its size tends to infinity. There is a elegant and classical theorem that explains why this dichotomy must hold under certain assumptions concerning the process. In this note, I explore how these assumptions might be relaxed further in order to obtain the same, or a similar conclusion, and obtain both positive and negative results.

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