The shape of multidimensional Brunet-Derrida particle systems

DOI10.1214/14-AAP1062MaRDI QIDQ1650087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nathanaël Berestycki, Lee Zhuo Zhao

Publication date 29 June 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0254, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1523433619

zbMATH Keywords

recombinationbranching Brownian motionBrunet-Derrida particle systemsrandom travelling wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

Abstract: We introduce particle systems in one or more dimensions in which particles perform branching Brownian motion and the population size is kept constant equal to $N>1$, through the following selection mechanism: at all times only the $N$ fittest particles survive, while all the other particles are removed. Fitness is measured with respect to some given score function $s:R^{d}oR$. For some choices of the function $s$, it is proved that the cloud of particles travels at positive speed in some possibly random direction. In the case where $s$ is linear, we show under some assumptions on the initial configuration that the shape of the cloud scales like $logN$ in the direction parallel to motion but at least $c(logN{)}^{3/2}$ in the orthogonal direction for some $c>0$. We conjecture that the exponent 3/2 is sharp. This result is equivalent to the following result of independent interest: in one-dimensional systems, the genealogical time is greater than $c(logN{)}^3$, thereby contributing a step towards the original predictions of Brunet and Derrida. We discuss several open problems and also explain how our results can be viewed as a rigorous justification of Weismann's arguments for the role of recombination in population genetics.

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