\Lambda-Wright--Fisher processes with general selection and opposing environmental effects: fixation and coexistence

arXiv2112.10560MaRDI QIDQ6505296FDOQ6505296

Authors: Fernando Cordero, Sebastian Hummel, Grégoire Véchambre

Abstract: Our results fully characterise the long-term behavior for a broad class of

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-Wright--Fisher processes with frequency-dependent and environmental selection. In particular, we reveal a rich variety of such parameter-dependent behaviors and provide explicit criteria to discriminate between them. That includes the situation in which both boundary points are asymptotically inaccessible {DH} a new phenomenon in this context. Such a boundary behavior has significant biological implications, because it exhibits a class of stochastic population models in which selection alone maintains coexistence. If a boundary point is asymptotically accessible, we derive polynomial/exponential decay rates for the probability of not being polynomially/exponentially close to the boundary, depending on some weak/strong integrability conditions. Moreover, we provide a handy representation of the fixation probability. Siegmund duality plays a key role in our proofs. The dual process can be sandwiched at the boundary in between two transformed L{'e}vy processes. In this way we relate the boundary behavior of the dual to fluctuation properties of the L{'e}vy processes and shed new light on previously established accessibility conditions. Our method allows us to treat models that so far could not be analyzed by means of moment or Bernstein duality. This closes an existing gap in the literature.

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