Nonlinear historical superprocess approximations for population models with past dependence

DOI10.1214/EJP.V17-2093zbMATH Open1258.60051arXiv1107.2052MaRDI QIDQ428669FDOQ428669

Authors: Sylvie Méléard, Viet Chi Tran 

Publication date: 22 June 2012

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

Abstract: We are interested in the evolving genealogy of a birth and death process with trait structure and ecological interactions. Traits are hereditarily transmitted from a parent to its offspring unless a mutation occurs. The dynamics may depend on the trait of the ancestors and on its past and allows interactions between individuals through their lineages. We define an interacting historical particle process describing the genealogies of the living individuals; it takes values in the space of point measures on an infinite dimensional c`adl`ag path space. This individual-based process can be approximated by a nonlinear historical superprocess, under the assumptions of large populations, small individuals and allometric demographies. Because of the interactions, the branching property fails and we use martingale problems and fine couplings between our population and independent branching particles. Our convergence theorem is illustrated by two examples of current interest in biology. The first one relates the biodiversity history of a population and its phylogeny, while the second treats a spatial model with competition between individuals through their past trajectories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2052

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zbMATH Keywords

limit theoremevolution modelsgenealogical interacting particle systemnonlinear historical superprocess

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Superprocesses (60J68)

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