The Fleming-Viot limit of an interacting spatial population with fast density regulation

DOI10.1214/EJP.V17-1964MaRDI QIDQ392695zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ankit Gupta

Publication date 15 January 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2909

zbMATH Keywords

cell polaritydensity dependencediffusion approximationFleming-Viot processpopulation geneticsspatial populationWright-Fisher model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Superprocesses (60J68) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: We consider population models in which the individuals reproduce, die and also migrate in space. The population size scales according to some parameter $N$, which can have different interpretations depending on the context. Each individual is assigned a mass of 1/N and the total mass in the system is called emph{population density}. The dynamics has an intrinsic density regulation mechanism that drives the population density towards an equilibrium. We show that under a timescale separation between the emph{slow} migration mechanism and the emph{fast} density regulation mechanism, the population dynamics converges to a Fleming-Viot process as the scaling parameter $N$ approaches $infty$. We first prove this result for a basic model in which the birth and death rates can only depend on the population density. In this case we obtain a emph{neutral} Fleming-Viot process. We then extend this model by including position-dependence in the birth and death rates, as well as, offspring dispersal and immigration mechanisms. We show how these extensions add emph{mutation} and emph{selection} to the limiting Fleming-Viot process. All the results are proved in a multi-type setting, where there are $q$ types of individuals interacting with each other. We illustrate the usefulness of our convergence result by discussing applications in population genetics and cell biology.

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From the author's abstract: The author deals with population models in which the individuals reproduce, die and also migrate in space. The population size scales according to some parameter \(N\), which can have different interpretations depending on the context. Each individual is assigned a mass of \(1/N\) and the total mass in the system is called population density. The dynamics has an intrinsic density regulation mechanism that drives the population density towards an equilibrium. It is shown that under a timescale separation between the slow migration mechanism and the fast density regulation mechanism, the population dynamics converges to a Fleming-Viot process as the scaling parameter \(N\to\infty\). All the results are proved in a multi-type setting, where there are \(q\) types of individuals reproducing each other. Certain applications in ecology and cell biology are considered.

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