• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Quasistationary Distributions and Fleming-Viot Processes in Finite Spaces
  • Beteiligte: Asselah, Amine; Ferrari, Pablo A.; Groisman, Pablo
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Applied Probability
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0021900200007907
  • ISSN: 1475-6072; 0021-9002
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Consider a continuous-time Markov process with transition rates matrix<jats:italic>Q</jats:italic>in the state space Λ ⋃ {0}. In the associated Fleming-Viot process<jats:italic>N</jats:italic>particles evolve independently in Λ with transition rates matrix<jats:italic>Q</jats:italic>until one of them attempts to jump to state 0. At this moment the particle jumps to one of the positions of the other particles, chosen uniformly at random. When Λ is finite, we show that the empirical distribution of the particles at a fixed time converges as<jats:italic>N</jats:italic>→ ∞ to the distribution of a single particle at the same time conditioned on not touching {0}. Furthermore, the empirical profile of the unique invariant measure for the Fleming-Viot process with<jats:italic>N</jats:italic>particles converges as<jats:italic>N</jats:italic>→ ∞ to the unique quasistationary distribution of the one-particle motion. A key element of the approach is to show that the two-particle correlations are of order 1 /<jats:italic>N</jats:italic>.</jats:p>