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Exact simulation of the genealogical tree for a stationary branching population and application to the asymptotics of its total length

Authors :
Delmas, Jean-François
Abraham, Romain
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

We consider a model of stationary population with random size given by a continuous state branching process with immigration with a quadratic branching mechanism. We give an exact elementary simulation procedure of the genealogical tree of $n$ individuals randomly chosen among the extant population at a given time. Then, we prove the convergence of the renormalized total length of this genealogical tree as $n$ goes to infinity, see also Pfaffelhuber, Wakolbinger and Weisshaupt (2011) in the context of a constant size population. The limit appears already in Bi and Delmas (2016) but with a different approximation of the full genealogical tree. The proof is based on the ancestral process of the extant population at a fixed time which was defined by Aldous and Popovic (2005) in the critical case.

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Probability

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1612.03715
Document Type :
Working Paper