Understanding clustering in type space using field theoretic techniques

DOI10.1007/S11538-007-9290-1MaRDI QIDQ942912zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel John Lawson, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Publication date 8 September 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2911

zbMATH Keywords

dimensional analysisstochastic partial differential equationfield theoryneutral evolutionbirth/death process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30)

Abstract: The birth/death process with mutation describes the evolution of a population, and displays rich dynamics including clustering and fluctuations. We discuss an analytical `field-theoretical' approach to the birth/death process, using a simple dimensional analysis argument to describe evolution as a `Super-Brownian Motion' in the infinite population limit. The field theory technique provides corrections to this for large but finite population, and an exact description at arbitrary population size. This allows a characterisation of the difference between the evolution of a phenotype, for which strong local clustering is observed, and a genotype for which distributions are more dispersed. We describe the approach with sufficient detail for non-specialists.

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