Error threshold in simple landscapes
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-10-28 v1 adap-org
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Populations and Evolution
Abstract
We consider the quasispecies description of a population evolving in both the "master sequence" landscape (where a single sequence is evolutionarily preferred over all others) and the REM landscape (where the fitness of different sequences is an independent, identically distributed, random variable). We show that, in both cases, the error threshold is analogous to a first order thermodynamical transition, where the overlap between the average genotype and the optimal one drops discontinuously to zero.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9610028,
title = {Error threshold in simple landscapes},
author = {Silvio Franz and Luca Peliti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9610028},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages and 2 figures, Plain LaTeX