Resident fitness computation in linear time and other algorithmic aspects of interacting trajectories

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Main Authors: Friedl, Katalin, Nemkin, Viktória, Tóbiás, András
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author Friedl, Katalin
Nemkin, Viktória
Tóbiás, András
author_facet Friedl, Katalin
Nemkin, Viktória
Tóbiás, András
contents Systems of interacting trajectories were recently studied in~\cite{HGSTW24}. Such a system of $[0,1]$-valued piecewise linear trajectories arises as a scaling limit of the system of logarithmic subpopulation sizes in a population-genetic model (more precisely, a Moran model) with mutation and selection. By definition, the resident fitness is initially 0 and afterwards it increases by the ultimate slope of each trajectory that reaches height 1. We show that although the interaction of $n$ trajectories may yield $Ω(n^2)$ slope changes in total, the resident fitness function can be computed algorithmically in $O(n)$ time. Our algorithm uses the so-called continued lines representation of the system of interacting trajectories. In the special case of Poissonian interacting trajectories where the birth times of the trajectories form a Poisson process and the initial slopes are random and i.i.d., we provide a linear bound on the expected total number of slope changes.
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spellingShingle Resident fitness computation in linear time and other algorithmic aspects of interacting trajectories
Friedl, Katalin
Nemkin, Viktória
Tóbiás, András
Data Structures and Algorithms
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68Q25, 68W40, 60K05, 92D15
Systems of interacting trajectories were recently studied in~\cite{HGSTW24}. Such a system of $[0,1]$-valued piecewise linear trajectories arises as a scaling limit of the system of logarithmic subpopulation sizes in a population-genetic model (more precisely, a Moran model) with mutation and selection. By definition, the resident fitness is initially 0 and afterwards it increases by the ultimate slope of each trajectory that reaches height 1. We show that although the interaction of $n$ trajectories may yield $Ω(n^2)$ slope changes in total, the resident fitness function can be computed algorithmically in $O(n)$ time. Our algorithm uses the so-called continued lines representation of the system of interacting trajectories. In the special case of Poissonian interacting trajectories where the birth times of the trajectories form a Poisson process and the initial slopes are random and i.i.d., we provide a linear bound on the expected total number of slope changes.
title Resident fitness computation in linear time and other algorithmic aspects of interacting trajectories
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
Probability
68Q25, 68W40, 60K05, 92D15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11561