A countable representation of the Fleming-Viot measure-valued diffusion

Annals of Probability

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 698-742

  Donnelly, Peter ^a   Kurtz, Thomas G ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Ergodicity; Exchangeability; Fleming viot process; Genealogical processes; Measure valued diffusion; Sample path properties; The coalescent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030522180     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1039639359     Document Type: Article

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