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Evolutionary Games on the Torus with Weak Selection

Probability 2015-11-17 v1

Abstract

We study evolutionary games on the torus with NN points in dimensions d3d\ge 3. The matrices have the form Gˉ=1+wG\bar G = {\bf 1} + w G, where 1{\bf 1} is a matrix that consists of all 1's, and ww is small. As in Cox Durrett and Perkins \cite{CDP} we rescale time and space and take a limit as NN\to\infty and w0w\to 0. If (i) wN2/dw \gg N^{-2/d} then the limit is a PDE on Rd{\bf R}^d. If (ii) N2/dwN1N^{-2/d} \gg w \gg N^{-1}, then the limit is an ODE. If (iii) wN1w \ll N^{-1} then the effect of selection vanishes in the limit. In regime (ii) if we introduce a mutation μ\mu so that μ/w\mu /w \to \infty slowly enough then we arrive at Tarnita's formula that describes how the equilibrium frequencies are shifted due to selection.

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@article{arxiv.1511.04713,
  title  = {Evolutionary Games on the Torus with Weak Selection},
  author = {J. T. Cox and Rick Durrett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04713},
  year   = {2015}
}
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