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Integral representation of probabilities in Kingman coalescent

Probability 2019-08-15 v2

Abstract

Kingman Coalescent was first proposed by Kingman [7] in population genetics to describe population's genealogical structure. Now it becomes a bench-mark model for coalescent process. Extensive studies have been conducted on Kingman coalescent. In particular, its explicit finite time distribution was obtained by Tavar\'e [12]. However, very few people use this explicit distribution to do analysis for it is an intractable infinite series. In this article, we are going to establish a complex integral representation for the finite time distribution, then we use steepest descent method to analyze this integral representation to obtain local central limit theorem at small time regime.

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@article{arxiv.1908.01474,
  title  = {Integral representation of probabilities in Kingman coalescent},
  author = {Youzhou Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01474},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures

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