WIAS Preprint No. 1041, (2005)

Renormalization analysis of catalytic Wright--Fisher diffusions



Authors

  • Fleischmann, Klaus
  • Swart, Jan M.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 82C28 82C22 60J60 60J80

Keywords

  • Renormalization, catalytic Wright-Fisher diffusion, rescaled iterates, catalyzing function, renormalization branching process, embedded particle system, extinction, unbounded growth, interacting diffusions, duality, coupling, Poisson-cluster, fixed point equation, universality class

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1041

Abstract

Recently, several authors have studied maps where a function, describing the local diffusion matrix of a diffusion process with a linear drift towards an attraction point, is mapped into the average of that function with respect to the unique invariant measure of the diffusion process, as a function of the attraction point. Such mappings arise in the analysis of infinite systems of diffusions indexed by the hierarchical group, with a linear attractive interaction between the components. In this context, the mappings are called renormalization transformations. We consider such maps for catalytic Wright-Fisher diffusions. These are diffusions on the unit square where the first component (the catalyst) performs an autonomous Wright-Fisher diffusion, while the second component (the reactant) performs a Wright-Fisher diffusion with a rate depending on the first component through a catalyzing function. We determine the limit of rescaled iterates of renormalization transformations acting on the diffusion matrices of such catalytic Wright-Fisher diffusions.

Appeared in

  • Electron. J. Probab., 11 (2006) pp. 585-654.

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