Absorption time and tree length of the Kingman coalescent and the Gumbel distribution

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Authors Martin Möhle, Helmut Pitters

Publication date 18 November 2015

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03983, http://math-mprf.org/journal/articles/id1368/

zbMATH Keywords

absorption timecumulantsEuler-Mascheroni integralsGumbel distributioninfinite convolutionKingman coalescentmomentsmost recent common ancestortree lengthzeta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Applications of continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J28) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: Formulas are provided for the cumulants and the moments of the time $T$ back to the most recent common ancestor of the Kingman coalescent. It is shown that both the $j$th cumulant and the $j$th moment of $T$ are linear combinations of the values $zeta(2m)$, $min0,ldots,lfloorj/2floor$, of the Riemann zeta function $zeta$ with integer coefficients. The proof is based on a solution of a two-dimensional recursion with countably many initial values. A closely related strong convergence result for the tree length $L_n$ of the Kingman coalescent restricted to a sample of size $n$ is derived. The results give reason to revisit the moments and central moments of the classical Gumbel distribution.

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