Macroscopic limit from a structured population model to the Kirkpatrick-Barton model
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| author | Raoul, Gaël |
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| contents | We consider an ecology model in which the population is structured by a spatial variable and a phenotypic trait. The model combines a parabolic operator on the spatial variable with a kinetic operator on the trait variable. We prove the existence of solutions to that model, and show that these solutions are unique. The kinetic operator present in the model, that represents the effect of sexual reproductions, satisfies a Tanaka-type inequality: it implies a contraction of the Wasserstein distance in the space of phenotypic traits. We combine this contraction argument with parabolic estimates controlling the spatial regularity of solutions to prove the convergence of the population size and the mean phenotypic trait to solutions of the Kirkpatrick-Barton model, which is a well-established model in evolutionary ecology. Specifically, at high reproductive rates, we provide explicit convergence estimates for the moments of solutions of the kinetic model. |
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| spellingShingle | Macroscopic limit from a structured population model to the Kirkpatrick-Barton model Raoul, Gaël Analysis of PDEs 35B40, 35Q20, 35K40, 35Q92, 35A01, 92D15 We consider an ecology model in which the population is structured by a spatial variable and a phenotypic trait. The model combines a parabolic operator on the spatial variable with a kinetic operator on the trait variable. We prove the existence of solutions to that model, and show that these solutions are unique. The kinetic operator present in the model, that represents the effect of sexual reproductions, satisfies a Tanaka-type inequality: it implies a contraction of the Wasserstein distance in the space of phenotypic traits. We combine this contraction argument with parabolic estimates controlling the spatial regularity of solutions to prove the convergence of the population size and the mean phenotypic trait to solutions of the Kirkpatrick-Barton model, which is a well-established model in evolutionary ecology. Specifically, at high reproductive rates, we provide explicit convergence estimates for the moments of solutions of the kinetic model. |
| title | Macroscopic limit from a structured population model to the Kirkpatrick-Barton model |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs 35B40, 35Q20, 35K40, 35Q92, 35A01, 92D15 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04094 |