SMALLER POPULATION SIZE AT THE MRCA TIME FOR STATIONARY BRANCHING PROCESSES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, Yu-Ting; Delmas, Jean-Francois
• 署名单位: University of British Columbia; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole des Ponts ParisTech; Universite Gustave-Eiffel
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0091-1798
• DOI: 10.1214/11-AOP668
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 2034-2068
• 关键词: continuum random tree; Levy processes; coalescent; REPRESENTATIONS; DECOMPOSITION; speed

摘要

We consider an elementary model of random size varying population governed by a stationary continuous-state branching process. We compute the distributions of various variables related to the most recent common ancestor (MRCA): the time to the MRCA, the size of the current population and the size of the population just before the MRCA. In particular we observe a natural mild bottleneck effect as the size of the population just before the MRCA is stochastically smaller than the size of the current population. We also compute the number of individuals involved in the last coalescent event of the genealogical tree, that is, the number of individuals at the time of the MRCA who have descendants in the current population. By studying more precisely the genealogical structure of the population, we get asymptotics for the number of ancestors just before the current time. We give explicit computations in the case of the quadratic branching mechanism. In this case, the size of the population at the MRCA is, in mean, 2/3 of the size of the current population. We also provide in this case the fluctuations for the renormalized number of ancestors.