The free energy method for the Fokker-Planck equation of the Wright-Fisher model

Tat Dat Tran, Julian Hofrichter, and Jürgen Jost

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Submission date: 22. Apr. 2015
Pages: 24
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Abstract:
We use the free energy functional associated with the Fokker-Planck (forward Kolmogorov) equation to investigate the convergence to equilibrium of the Wright-Fisher model of population genetics in the case of positive mutation rates.