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Bansaye, Vincent; Caballero, Maria-Emilia; Méléard, Sylvie

Scaling limits of population and evolution processes in random environment. (English) Zbl 1466.60150

Electron. J. Probab. 24, Paper No. 19, 38 p. (2019).
Summary: We propose a general method for investigating scaling limits of finite dimensional Markov chains to diffusions with jumps. The results of tightness, identification and convergence in law are based on the convergence of suitable characteristics of the chain transition. We apply these results to population processes recursively defined as sums of independent random variables. Two main applications are developed. First, we extend the Wright-Fisher model to independent and identically distributed random environments and show its convergence, under a large population assumption, to a Wright-Fisher diffusion in random environment. Second, we obtain the convergence in law of generalized Galton-Watson processes with interaction in random environment to solutions of stochastic differential equations with jumps.

Cited in 10 Documents

MSC:

60J27 Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces
60J74 Jump processes on discrete state spaces
60F15 Strong limit theorems
60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems
60F10 Large deviations

Keywords:

tightness; diffusions with jumps; characteristics; semimartingales; Galton-Watson process; wright-Fisher process; random environment
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