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One of the fundamental mathematical models for studying random genetic drift is the Kimura equation, derived as the large-population limit of the discrete Wright-Fisher model. However, due to the degeneracy of the diffusion coefficient, it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Chi-An Chen , Chun Liu , Yiwei Wang

We propose and analyze an optimal mass transport method for a random genetic drift problem driven by a Moran process under weak-selection. The continuum limit, formulated as a reaction-advection-diffusion equation known as the Kimura…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 José A. Carrillo , Lin Chen , Qi Wang

The Kimura equation is a degenerated partial differential equation of drift-diffusion type used in population genetics. Its solution is required to satisfy not only the equation but a series of conservation laws formulated as integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Fabio A. C. C. Chalub

There are many different models--both continuous and discrete--used to describe gene mutation fixation. In particular, the Moran process, the Kimura equation and the replicator dynamics are all well known models, that might lead to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Fabio A. C. C. Chalub , Max O. Souza

We study the large population limit of the Moran process, assuming weak-selection, and for different scalings. Depending on the particular choice of scalings, we obtain a continuous model that may highlight the genetic-drift (neutral…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-21 Fabio A. C. C. Chalub , Max O. Souza

Trajectory generation for visually impaired scenarios requires smooth and temporally consistent state in structured, low-speed dynamic environments. However, traditional jerk-based heuristic trajectory sampling with independent segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yuting Zeng , Manping Fan , You Zhou , Yongbin Yu , Zhiwen Zheng , Jingtao Zhang , Liyong Ren , Zhenglin Yang

In this paper, we propose a numerical method to uniformly handle the random genetic drift model for pure drift with or without natural selection and mutation. For pure drift and natural selection case, the Dirac $\delta$ singularity will…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Chenghua Duan , Chun Liu , Xingye Yue

We introduce a theory of sequential causal inference in which learners in a chain estimate a structural model from their upstream teacher and then pass samples from the model to their downstream student. It extends the population dynamics…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-02-28 James P. Crutchfield , Sean Whalen

In this paper, we focus on numerical solutions for random genetic drift problem, which is governed by a degenerated convection-dominated parabolic equation. Due to the fixation phenomenon of genes, Dirac delta singularities will develop at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Chenghua Duan , Chun Liu , Cheng Wang , Xingye Yue

Populations evolving under the joint influence of recombination and resampling (traditionally known as genetic drift) are investigated. First, we summarise and adapt a deterministic approach, as valid for infinite populations, which assumes…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-02-20 Ellen Baake , Inke Herms

A free boundary diffusive logistic model finds application in many different fields from biological invasion to wildfire propagation. However, many of these processes show a random nature and contain uncertainties in the parameters. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-17 M. -C. Casabán , R. Company , V. N. Egorova , L. Jódar

We force uniqueness in finite state mean field games by adding a Wright-Fisher common noise. We achieve this by analyzing the master equation of this game, which is a degenerate parabolic second-order partial differential equation set on…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Erhan Bayraktar , Alekos Cecchin , Asaf Cohen , Francois Delarue

We develop a continuous mathematical model of population dynamics that describes the sequential emergence of new genotypes under limited resources. The framework models genotype density as a nonlinear flow in mutation space, combining…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Alexander Bratus , Tatiana Yakushkina , Vladimir Posvyanski

The dynamics of adaptation is difficult to predict because it is highly stochastic even in large populations. The uncertainty emerges from number fluctuations, called genetic drift, arising in the small number of particularly fit…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-30 Oskar Hallatschek , Lukas Geyrhofer

This article investigates an energy balance model coupled to the primitive equations by a dynamic boundary condition with and without noise on the boundary. It is shown that this system is globally strongly well-posed both in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Gianmarco Del Sarto , Matthias Hieber , Tarek Zöchling

The random diffusion model is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field driven by diffusive dynamics where the bare diffusion coefficient is density dependent. We generalize the model from one with a sharp wavenumber cutoff to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 David D. McCowan , Gene F. Mazenko

We consider the so called Moran process with frequency dependent fitness given by a certain pay-off matrix. For finite populations, we show that the final state must be homogeneous, and show how to compute the fixation probabilities. Next,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabio A. C. C. Chalub , Max O. Souza

In this paper we develop a new approach to stochastic evolution equations with an unbounded drift $A$ which is dependent on time and the underlying probability space in an adapted way. It is well-known that the semigroup approach to…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Matthijs Pronk , Mark Veraar

The drift diffusion model (DDM) is a model of sequential sampling with diffusion (Brownian) signals, where the decision maker accumulates evidence until the process hits a stopping boundary, and then stops and chooses the alternative that…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-10-12 Drew Fudenberg , Whitney K. Newey , Philipp Strack , Tomasz Strzalecki

In order to understand the impact of random influences at physical boundary on the evolution of multiscale systems, a stochastic partial differential equation model under a fast random dynamical boundary condition is investigated. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-08-07 Wei Wang , Jinqiao Duan
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