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The geometry of random drift IV. Random time substitutions and stationary densities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Peter L. Antonelli
Peter L. Antonelli*
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University of Alberta
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Abstract

In the present paper a spatially homogeneous distance measure of Edwards and Cavalli-Sforza type is derived for multiple allele random genetic drift with a (possibly vanishing) symmetric mutation field, using the technique of random time substitution. Since the mutation field is of gradient type in gene frequency space, the transformed process is proved to be Brownian motion relative to a new Riemannian geometry and a new time measure. The new geometry is conformally related to spherical geometry of the original process but is not of constant curvature, generally. A formula relating the stationary density of the old and new process is derived and the edge length formula for the new geometry on the n-simplex frequency space is given and analysed.

Keywords

GENETIC DISTANCEWFK-PROCESS DIFFUSIONRANDOM TIME SUBSTITUTIONTRANSFORMED DIFFUSIONCONFORMAL DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRYCURVATURESTATIONARY DENSITIESBROWNIAN MOTION IN RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY
Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 1978 , pp. 563 - 569
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1978 

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