Smaller population size at the MRCA time for stationary branching processes

DOI10.1214/11-AOP668zbMATH Open1275.92076arXiv1009.0814OpenAlexW2963645573MaRDI QIDQ690871FDOQ690871

Authors: Yu-Ting Chen, Jean-François Delmas 

Publication date: 29 November 2012

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present an elementary model of random size varying population given by a stationary continuous state branching process. For this model we compute the joint distribution of: the time to the most recent common ancestor, the size of the current population and the size of the population just before the most recent common ancestor (MRCA). In particular we show a natural mild bottleneck effect as the size of the population just before the MRCA is stochastically smaller than the size of the current population. We also compute the number of old families which corresponds to the number of individuals involved in the last coalescent event of the genealogical tree. By studying more precisely the genealogical structure of the population, we get asymptotics for the number of ancestors just before the current time. We give explicit computations in the case of the quadratic branching mechanism. In this case, the size of the population at the MRCA is, in mean, less by 1/3 than size of the current population size. We also provide in this case the fluctuations for the renormalized number of ancestors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0814

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zbMATH Keywords

genealogybottleneckmost recent common ancestorFeller diffusionlast coalescent eventrandom size populationLévy trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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