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On the boundary classification of $\Lambda$-Wright-Fisher processes with frequency-dependent selection

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Abstract

We construct extensions of the pure-jump Λ\Lambda-Wright-Fisher processes with frequency-dependent selection (Λ\Lambda-WF processes with selection) beyond their first passage time at the boundary 11. We show that they satisfy some duality relationships with the block counting process of simple exchangeable fragmentation-coalescence processes (EFC). One-to-one correspondences between the nature of the boundary 11 of the Λ\Lambda-WF process with selection and the boundary \infty of the block counting process are established. New properties for the Λ\Lambda-WF processes with selection and the block counting processes of the simple EFC processes are deduced from these correspondences. Some conditions are provided for the selection to be either weak enough for boundary 11 to be an exit boundary or strong enough for 11 to be an entrance boundary. When the measure Λ\Lambda and the selection mechanism satisfy some regular variation properties, conditions are found in order that the extended Λ\Lambda-WF process with selection makes excursions out from the boundary 11 before getting absorbed at 00. In the latter process, 11 is a transient regular reflecting boundary. This corresponds to a new phenomenon for the deleterious allele which can spread into the population in a set of times of zero Lebesgue measure, before vanishing in finite time almost surely.

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@article{arxiv.2012.08578,
  title  = {On the boundary classification of $\Lambda$-Wright-Fisher processes with frequency-dependent selection},
  author = {Clément Foucart and Xiaowen Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.08578},
  year   = {2020}
}
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