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Evolutionary Dynamics and Lipschitz Maps

John Cleveland
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In \cite{ CLEVACKTHI, CLEVACK} an attempt is made to find a comprehensive mathematical framework in which to investigate the problems of well-posedness, asymptotic analysis and parameter estimation for fully nonlinear evolutionary game models. A theory is developed as a dynamical system on the state space of finite signed Borel measures under the weak star topology. Two drawbacks of the previous theory is that the techniques and machinery involved in establishing the results are awkward and have not shed light on the parameter estimation question. For example, in \cite{CLEVACK} the proof for the existence of the dynamical system is obtained via a fixed point argument using the total variation topology, however, the continuity of the model is established in the $weak^* $ topology. This has caused some confusion. I have remedied this by making all the vital rates Lipschitz and the dynamical system is defined on the dual of the bounded Lipschitz maps, a Banach space. I introduce a method of multiplying a functional by a family of functionals. This multiplication behaves nicely with respect to taking normed estimates. It allows us to form a semiflow that is locally Lipschitz, positive invariant, and covers all cases: discrete, continuous, pure selection, selection mutation and measure valued models. Under biologically motivated assumptions the model is uniformly eventually bounded. This remedies both the above problems as only one norm is used, this norm induces the $weak^*$ topology on the positive cone of measures and since we have a norm and local Lipschitzity we can form a theory of Parameter Estimation.

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John Cleveland. 2014-09-13. Evolutionary Dynamics and Lipschitz Maps. https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3907

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