A differential equation for the asymptotic fitness distribution in the Bak-Sneppen model with five species

DOI10.1016/J.MBS.2015.06.011zbMATH Open1328.37058arXiv1506.06238OpenAlexW2962798802WikidataQ46705011 ScholiaQ46705011MaRDI QIDQ899214FDOQ899214

Authors: Eckhard Schlemm 

Publication date: 21 December 2015

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Bak--Sneppen model is an abstract representation of a biological system that evolves according to the Darwinian principles of random mutation and selection. The species in the system are characterized by a numerical fitness value between zero and one. We show that in the case of five species the steady-state fitness distribution can be obtained as a solution to a linear differential equation of order five with hypergeometric coefficients. Similar representations for the asymptotic fitness distribution in larger systems may help pave the way towards a resolution of the question of whether or not, in the limit of infinitely many species, the fitness is asymptotically uniformly distributed on the interval [f,1] with f approximately equal to 2/3.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06238

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainhypergeometric functionevolutionary biologysteady-state distributionBak-Sneppen model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Systems biology, networks (92C42) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05)

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