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May 2017 Scaling limits of coalescent processes near time zero
Batı Şengül
Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 53(2): 616-640 (May 2017). DOI: 10.1214/15-AIHP727

Abstract

In this paper we obtain scaling limits of $\Lambda$-coalescents near time zero under a regularly varying assumption. In particular this covers the case of Kingman’s coalescent and beta coalescents. The limiting processes are coalescents with infinite mass, obtained geometrically as tangent cones of Evans metric space associated with the coalescent. In the case of Kingman’s coalescent we are able to obtain a simple construction of the limiting space using a two-sided Brownian motion.

Nous obtenons des limites d’échelle de $\Lambda$-coalescents en temps zéro sous une hypothèse de variation régulière. Cette hypothèse inclut notamment le coalescent de Kingman ainsi que la famille des Beta-coalescents. Les processus limites sont des processus de coalescence avec masse infinie, construits de manière géométrique comme cônes tangents de l’espace métrique de Evans. Dans le cas particulier du coalescent de Kingman une construction simple du processus limite est donnée à partir d’un mouvement brownien bidirectionnel.

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Batı Şengül. "Scaling limits of coalescent processes near time zero." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 53 (2) 616 - 640, May 2017. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-AIHP727

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Received: 17 March 2014; Revised: 1 October 2015; Accepted: 5 November 2015; Published: May 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 11 April 2017

zbMATH: 1367.60030
MathSciNet: MR3634267
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/15-AIHP727

Subjects:
Primary: 60F99 , 60J80 , 60J99

Keywords: Gromov–Hausdorff convergence , Random metric space , Regularly varying coalescents , scaling limits , small time asymptotics , tangent cones

Rights: Copyright © 2017 Institut Henri Poincaré

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