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The coalescent in population models with time-inhomogeneous environment

Martin Möhle

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Statistics and ProbabilityWeak convergencePopulation geneticsApplied MathematicsPopulation sizeVarying environmentPopulation geneticsProduct integralHeavy traffic approximationProduct integralStirling numbersCoalescent theoryFamily SizesDiffusion approximationPopulation modelAncestorsModelling and SimulationModeling and SimulationEconometricsQuantitative Biology::Populations and EvolutionCoalescentStatistical physicsWeak convergenceMathematics

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AbstractThe coalescent theory, well developed for the class of exchangeable population models with time-homogeneous reproduction law, is extended to a class of population models with time-inhomogeneous environment, where the population size is allowed to vary deterministically with time and where the distribution of the family sizes is allowed to change from generation to generation. A new class of time-inhomogeneous coalescent limit processes with simultaneous multiple mergers arises. Its distribution can be characterized in terms of product integrals.

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-4149(01)00135-1