Bak-Sneppen backwards

DOI10.1080/17442508.2017.1282957zbMATH Open1394.60077arXiv1510.04114OpenAlexW2173831077MaRDI QIDQ4584691FDOQ4584691

Authors: Tom Alberts, Ga Yeong Lee, Mackenzie Simper 

Publication date: 4 September 2018

Published in: Stochastics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the backwards Markov chain for the Bak-Sneppen model of biological evolution and derive its corresponding reversibility equations. We show that, in contrast to the forwards Markov chain, the dynamics of the backwards chain explicitly involve the stationary distribution of the model, and from this we derive a functional equation that the stationary distribution must satisfy. We use this functional equation to derive differential equations for the stationary distribution of Bak-Sneppen models in which all but one or all but two of the fitnesses are replaced at each step. This gives a unified way of deriving Schlemm's expressions for the stationary distributions of the isotropic four-species model, the isotropic five-species model, and the anisotropic three-species model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04114

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainstationary distributionBak-Sneppen model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35)

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