February 2024 The relative frequency between two continuous-state branching processes with immigration and their genealogy
Maria Emilia Caballero, Adrián González Casanova, José-Luis Pérez
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Ann. Appl. Probab. 34(1B): 1271-1318 (February 2024). DOI: 10.1214/23-AAP1991

Abstract

When two (possibly different in distribution) continuous-state branching processes with immigration are present, we study the relative frequency of one of them when the total mass is forced to be constant at a dense set of times. This leads to a SDE whose unique strong solution will be the definition of a Λ-asymmetric frequency process (Λ-AFP). We prove that it is a Feller process and we calculate a large population limit when the total mass tends to infinity. This allows us to study the fluctuations of the process around its deterministic limit. Furthermore, we find conditions for the Λ-AFP to have a moment dual. The dual can be interpreted in terms of selection, (coordinated) mutation, pairwise branching (efficiency), coalescence, and a novel component that comes from the asymmetry between the reproduction mechanisms. In the particular case of a pair of equally distributed continuous-state branching processes the associated Λ-AFP will be the dual of a Λ-coalescent. The map that sends each continuous-state branching process to its associated Λ-coalescent (according to the former procedure) is a homeomorphism between metric spaces.

Funding Statement

The second author was supported by the grant CONACYT CIENCIA BÁSICA A1-S-14615.

Acknowledgments

We want to thank the anonymous referees for the careful reading, constructive comments, and suggestions, which significantly improved the presentation and the readability of the paper. Specially, for the detailed advice provided by one of the referees to shorten the proof of Theorem 3. Adrián González Casanova is a Neyman Visiting Professor at Department of Statistics of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Maria Emilia Caballero. Adrián González Casanova. José-Luis Pérez. "The relative frequency between two continuous-state branching processes with immigration and their genealogy." Ann. Appl. Probab. 34 (1B) 1271 - 1318, February 2024. https://doi.org/10.1214/23-AAP1991

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Received: 1 December 2020; Revised: 1 May 2023; Published: February 2024
First available in Project Euclid: 1 February 2024

MathSciNet: MR4700259
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/23-AAP1991

Subjects:
Primary: 60J80 , 60J90
Secondary: 92D15

Keywords: Continuous-state branching processes with immigration , moment duality , Λ-asymmetric frequency processes , Λ-coalescents

Rights: Copyright © 2024 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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