On the convergence of densities of finite voter models to the Wright-Fisher diffusion

DOI10.1214/14-AIHP639zbMATH Open1336.60184arXiv1311.5786OpenAlexW2963526405MaRDI QIDQ5963219FDOQ5963219

Jihyeok Choi, J. Theodore Cox, Yu-Ting Chen

Publication date: 4 March 2016

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study voter models defined on large sets. Through a perspective emphasizing the martingale property of voter density processes, we prove that in general, their convergence to the Wright-Fisher diffusion only involves certain averages of the voter models over a small number of spatial locations. This enables us to identify suitable mixing conditions on the underlying voting kernels, one of which may just depend on their eigenvalues in some contexts, to obtain the convergence of density processes. Our examples show that these conditions are satisfied by a large class of voter models on growing finite graphs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5786

zbMATH Keywords

Wright-Fisher diffusioninteracting particle systemsemimartingale convergence theoremvoter modelsdual processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Diffusion processes (60J60) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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