Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/227638 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2020-05
Publisher: 
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan
Abstract: 
We consider genotypic convergence of populations and show that under fixed fitness asexual and haploid sexual populations attain monomorphic convergence (even with linkage disequilibrium) to basins of attraction with locally exponential convergence rates; the same convergence obtains in single locus diploid sexual reproduction but to polymorphic populations. Furthermore, we show that there is a unified underlying theory underlying these convergences: all of them can be interpreted as instantiations of players in a potential game implementing a multiplicative weights updating algorithm to converge to equilibrium, making use of the Baum-Eagon Theorem. To analyse varying environments, we introduce the concept of "virtual convergence", under which, even if fixation is not attained, the population nevertheless achieves the fitness growth rate it would have had under convergence to an optimal genotype. Virtual convergence is attained by asexual, haploid sexual, and multi-locus diploid reproducing populations, even if environments vary arbitrarily. We also study conditions for true monomorphic convergence in asexually reproducing populations in varying environments.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
413.16 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.