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The Multi-type Bisexual Galton-Watson Branching Process

Probability 2022-06-22 v1

Abstract

In this work we study the bisexual Galton-Watson process with a finite number of types, where females and males mate according to a ''mating function'' and form couples of different types. We assume that this function is superadditive, which in simple words implies that two groups of females and males will form a larger number of couples together rather than separate. In the absence of a linear reproduction operator which is the key to understand the behaviour of the model in the asexual case, we build a concave reproduction operator and use a concave Perron-Frobenius theory to ensure the existence of eigenelements. Using this tool, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for almost sure extinction as well as a law of large numbers. Finally, we study the almost sure long-time convergence of the rescaled process through the identification of a supermartingale, and we give sufficient conditions to ensure a convergence in L1L^1 to a non-degenerate limit.

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@article{arxiv.2206.09622,
  title  = {The Multi-type Bisexual Galton-Watson Branching Process},
  author = {Coralie Fritsch and Denis Villemonais and Nicolás Zalduendo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.09622},
  year   = {2022}
}
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