Wright-Fisher model with negative mutation rates

Details Wright-Fisher model with negative mutation rates Wright-Fisher model with negative mutation rates

2010-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/1002.0159v3

Mathematics

Probability

21 pages; revised version

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We study a family of n-dimensional diffusions taking values in the unit simplex of vectors with non-negative coordinates that add up to one. These processes satisfy stochastic differential equations which are similar to the ones for the classical Wright-Fisher diffusions, except that the "mutation rates" are now nonpositive. This model, suggested by Aldous, appears in the study of a conjectured diffusion limit for a Markov chain on Cladograms. The striking feature of these models is that the boundary is not reflecting, and we kill the process once it hits the boundary. We derive the explicit exit distribution from the simplex, and probabilistic bounds on the exit time. We also prove that these processes can be viewed as a "stochastic time-reversal" of a Wright-Fisher process of increasing dimensions and conditioned at a random time. A key idea in our proofs is a skew-product construction using certain one-dimensional diffusions called Bessel-square processes of negative dimensions which have been recently introduced by Going-Jaeschke and Yor.

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