The genealogy of a solvable population model under selection with dynamics related to directed polymers

DOI10.3150/15-BEJ726zbMATH Open1344.60092arXiv1406.1432MaRDI QIDQ726737FDOQ726737

Authors: Aser Cortines 

Publication date: 14 July 2016

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a stochastic model describing a constant size $N$ population that may be seen as a directed polymer in random medium with $N$ sites in the transverse direction. The population dynamics is governed by a noisy traveling wave equation describing the evolution of the individual fitnesses. We show that under suitable conditions the generations are independent and the model is characterized by an extended Wright-Fisher model, in which the individual $i$ has a random fitness $et{a}_i$ and the joint distribution of offspring $(u_1,ldots,u_N)$ is given by a multinomial law with $N$ trials and probability outcomes $et{a}_i$'s. We then show that the average coalescence times scales like $logN$ and that the limit genealogical trees are governed by the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent, which validates the predictions by Brunet, Derrida, Mueller and Munier for this class of models. We also study the extended Wright-Fisher model, and show that, under certain conditions on $et{a}_i$, the limit may be Kingman's coalescent, a coalescent with multiple collisions, or a coalescent with simultaneous multiple collisions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1432

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zbMATH Keywords

traveling wavespopulation modelBolthausen-Sznitman coalescentancestral processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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