The evolving beta coalescent

DOI10.1214/EJP.V19-3332MaRDI QIDQ743489zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Wakolbinger, Götz Kersting, Jason Schweinsberg

Publication date 24 September 2014

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4534

zbMATH Keywords

total branch lengthbeta coalescentevolving coalescentnumber of mergersstable moving average processestotal external length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Stable stochastic processes (60G52)

Abstract: In mathematical population genetics, it is well known that one can represent the genealogy of a population by a tree, which indicates how the ancestral lines of individuals in the population coalesce as they are traced back in time. As the population evolves over time, the tree that represents the genealogy of the population also changes, leading to a tree-valued stochastic process known as the evolving coalescent. Here we will consider the evolving coalescent for populations whose genealogy can be described by a beta coalescent, which is known to give the genealogy of populations with very large family sizes. We show that as the size of the population tends to infinity, the evolution of certain functionals of the beta coalescent, such as the total number of mergers, the total branch length, and the total length of external branches, converges to a stationary stable process. Our methods also lead to new proofs of known asymptotic results for certain functionals of the non-evolving beta coalescent.

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