Satya N. Majumdar 2, David S. Dean 1
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2006) L07001
A simplified form of the quasispecies model of biological evolution is solved via a mapping onto a random flux model whose asymptotic behavior can be described in terms of a random walk. The statistics of the number of changes of the dominant species from a finite set of genotypes are exactly obtained confirming existing conjectures based on numerics.
- 1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique – IRSAMC (LPT),
CNRS : UMR5152 – Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III - 2. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI – Paris Sud