A probabilistic analysis of a discrete-time evolution in recombination II. (On partitions)

Abstract

We study the discrete-time evolution of a transformation on a set of probability measures that is up-dated combining independently the marginals on the atoms of partitions. This model was recently introduced in Baake, Baake and Salamat (Discr. and contin. dynam. syst. 36, 2016) for continuous-time evolution and generalizes previous ones based upon dyadic partitions. We associate to the discrete-time evolution a natural Markov chain and describe its quasi-stationary behavior retrieving all the results we recently found for dyadic partitions.