Coupling and ergodic theorems for Fleming-Viot processes

Annals of Probability

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 533-561

  Ethier, S N ^a   Kurtz, Thomas G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Duality; Ergodicity; Measure valued diffusion; Population genetics; Recombination; Selection; Stationary distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032388606     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022855643     Document Type: Article

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