Proof of the Feldman-Karlin Conjecture on the Maximum Number of Equilibria in an Evolutionary System

Details Proof of the Feldman-Karlin Conjecture on the Maximum Number of Equilibria in an Evolutionary System Proof of the Feldman-Karlin Conjecture on the Maximum Number of Equilibria in an Evolutionary System

2009-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/0910.1892v4

Theoretical Population Biology, Volume 77, Issue 4, June 2010, Pages 263-269

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

9 pages, 1 figure; v.4: final minor revisions, corrections, additions; v.3: expands theorem to cover all cases, obviating v.2

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.tpb.2010.02.007

Feldman and Karlin conjectured that the number of isolated fixed points for deterministic models of viability selection and recombination among n possible haplotypes has an upper bound of 2^n - 1. Here a proof is provided. The upper bound of 3^{n-1} obtained by Lyubich et al. (2001) using Bezout's Theorem (1779) is reduced here to 2^n through a change of representation that reduces the third-order polynomials to second order. A further reduction to 2^n - 1 is obtained using the homogeneous representation of the system, which yields always one solution `at infinity'. While the original conjecture was made for systems of viability selection and recombination, the results here generalize to viability selection with any arbitrary system of bi-parental transmission, which includes recombination and mutation as special cases. An example is constructed of a mutation-selection system that has 2^n - 1 fixed points given any n, which shows that 2^n - 1 is the sharpest possible upper bound that can be found for the general space of selection and transmission coefficients.

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