Poisson limit for the number of cycles in a random permutation and the number of segregating sites

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Authors: Helmut Pitters, Philip Weissmann 

Publication date: 14 June 2019

Abstract: Consider a random permutation of $1,ldots,lfloor{n}^{t_2}floor$ drawn according to the Ewens measure with parameter $t_1$ and let $K(n,t)$ denote the number of its cycles, where $tequiv(t_1,t_2)inmathbb[0,1{]}^2$. Next, consider a sample drawn from a large, neutral population of haploid individuals subject to mutation under the infinitely many sites model of Kimura whose genealogy is governed by Kingman's coalescent. Let $S(n,t)$ count the number of segregating sites in a sample of size $lfloor{n}^{t_2}floor$ when mutations arrive at rate $t_1/2$. We show that $K(n,(t_1/logn,t_2))-1$ and $S(n,(t_1/logn,t_2))$ induce unique random measures $P{i}_n^K$ and $P{i}_n^S,$ respectively, on the positive quadrant $[0,infty{)}^2.$ Our main result is to show that in the coupling of $S(n,t)$ and $K(n,t)$ introduced in~cite{Pitters2019} we have weak convergence as $noinfty$ �egin{align*} (Pi_n^K, Pi_n^S) o_d (Pi, Pi), end{align*} where $Pi$ is a Poisson point process on $[0,infty{)}^2$ of unit intensity. This complements the work in~cite{Pitters2019} where it was shown that the process $(K(n,t),S(n,t)),tin[0,1{]}^2,$ appropriately rescaled, converges weakly to the product of the same one-dimensional Brownian sheet.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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