On the external branches of coalescents with multiple collisions

DOI10.1214/EJP.V18-2286zbMATH Open1285.60079arXiv1209.3380MaRDI QIDQ388901FDOQ388901

Authors: Jean-Stéphane Dhersin, Martin Möhle 

Publication date: 17 January 2014

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

Abstract: A recursion for the joint moments of the external branch lengths for coalescents with multiple collisions ($Lambda$-coalescents) is provided. This recursion is used to derive asymptotic results as the sample size $n$ tends to infinity for the joint moments of the external branch lengths and for the moments of the total external branch length of the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent. These asymptotic results are based on a differential equation approach, which is as well useful to obtain exact solutions for the joint moments of the external branch lengths for the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent. The results for example show that the lengths of two randomly chosen external branches are positively correlated for the Bolthausen--Sznitman coalescent, whereas they are negatively correlated for the Kingman coalescent provided that $nge4$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3380

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionsmultiple collisionsBolthausen-Sznitman coalescentexternal branchesjoint momentsKingman coalescent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05)

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