• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: QUASISTATIONARY DISTRIBUTIONS AND FLEMING—VIOT PROCESSES IN FINITE SPACES
  • Beteiligte: ASSELAH, AMINE; FERRARI, PABLO A.; GROISMAN, PABLO
  • Erschienen: Applied Probability Trust, 2011
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Applied Probability
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0021-9002
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  • Beschreibung: <p>Consider a continuous-time Markov process with transition rates matrix Q in the state space Λ ⋃ {0}. In the associated Fleming—Viot process N particles evolve independently in Λ with transition rates matrix Q 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 N → ∞ 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 N particles converges as N → ∞ 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/N.</p>