The general recombination equation in continuous time and its solution

Ellen Baake, Michael Baake, Majid Salamat
(Submitted on 4 Sep 2014)

The process of recombination in population genetics, in its deterministic limit, leads to a nonlinear ODE in the Banach space of finite measures on a locally compact product space. It has an embedding into a larger family of nonlinear ODEs that permits a systematic analysis with lattice-theoretic methods for general partitions of finite sets. We discuss this type of system, reduce it to an equivalent finite-dimensional nonlinear problem, and solve the latter recursively for generic sets of parameters. We also briefly discuss the singular cases, and how to extend the solution to this situation.