Two level branching model for virus population under cell division

arXiv2004.14352MaRDI QIDQ6339701FDOQ6339701

Publication date: 29 April 2020

Abstract: In this paper we study a two-level branching model for virus populations under cell division. We assume that the cells are carrying virus populations which evolve as a branching particle system with competition, while the cells split according to a Yule process thereby dividing their virus populations into two independently evolving sub-populations. We then assume that sizes of the virus populations are huge and characterize the fast branching rate and huge population density limit as the solution of a well-posed martingale problem. While verifying tightness is quite standard, we provide a Feynman-Kac duality relation to conclude uniqueness. Moreover, the duality relation allows for a further study of the long term behavior of the model.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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