Fixation probabilities for the Moran process with three or more strategies: general and coupling results

DOI10.1007/S00285-020-01510-0zbMATH Open1437.91073arXiv1811.09552OpenAlexW3032423327WikidataQ96019328 ScholiaQ96019328MaRDI QIDQ782884FDOQ782884

Armando G. M. Neves, Eliza M. Ferreira

Publication date: 29 July 2020

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study fixation probabilities for the Moran stochastic process for the evolution of a population with three or more types of individuals and frequency-dependent fitnesses. Contrarily to the case of populations with two types of individuals, in which fixation probabilities may be calculated by an exact formula, here we must solve a large system of linear equations. We first show that this system always has a unique solution. Other results are upper and lower bounds for the fixation probabilities obtained by coupling the Moran process with three strategies with birth-death processes with only two strategies. We also apply our bounds to the problem of evolution of cooperation in a population with three types of individuals already studied in a deterministic setting by N'u~nez Rodr'iguez and Neves (J. Math. Biol. (2016) 73:1665--1690). We argue that cooperators will be fixated in the population with probability arbitrarily close to 1 for a large region of initial conditions and large enough population sizes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.09552

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainsevolutionary gamescoupling method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Evolutionary games (91A22)

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