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Distinguished exchangeable coalescents and generalized Fleming-Viot processes with immigration

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Coalescents with multiple collisions (also called Lambda-coalescents or simple exchangeable coalescents) are used as models of genealogies. We study a new class of Markovian coalescent processes connected to a population model with immigration. Consider an infinite population with immigration labelled at each generation by N := {1,2, ... }. Some ancestral lineages cannot be followed backwards after some time because their ancestor is outside the population. The individuals with an immigrant ancestor constitute a distinguished family and we define exchangeable distinguished coalescent processes as a model for genealogy with immigration, focusing on simple distinguished coalescents, i.e. such that when a coagulation occurs all the blocks involved merge as a single block. These processes are characterized by two finite measures on [0,1] denoted by M = (Lambda(0), Lambda(1)). We call them M-coalescents. We show by martingale arguments that the condition of coming down from infinity for the M-coalescent coincides with that obtained by Schweinsberg for the A-coalescent. In the same vein as Bertoin and Le Gall, M-coalescents are associated with some stochastic flows. The superprocess embedded can be viewed as a generalized Fleming-Viot process with immigration. The measures Lambda(0) and Lambda(1) respectively specify the reproduction and the immigration. The coming down from infinity of the M-coalescent will be interpreted as the initial types extinction: after a certain time all individuals are immigrant children.

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hal-00606471 , version 1 (06-07-2011)

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C. Foucart. Distinguished exchangeable coalescents and generalized Fleming-Viot processes with immigration. Advances in Applied Probability, 2011, 43 (2), pp.348-374. ⟨10.1239/aap/1308662483⟩. ⟨hal-00606471⟩
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