Weak convergence to a Markov chain with an entrance boundary: Ancestral processes in population genetics

DOI10.1214/aop/1176990336zbMath0732.92014OpenAlexW1976927620MaRDI QIDQ809925

Peter Donnelly

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176990336

zbMATH Keywords

population geneticsancestral processgenetic modelsgenealogical processeslines of descententrance boundary at infinityexchangeable reproductive modelsneutral genetic modelsweak convergence of the absorption timesweak convergence of the marginal distributionWright-Fisher diffusion approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Diffusion processes (60J60) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99)

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