Change of measure in the lookdown particle system

We perform various changes of measure in the lookdown particle system of Donnelly and Kurtz. The first example is a product type h-transform related to conditioning a Generalized Fleming Viot process without mutation on coexistence of some genetic types in remote time. We give a pathwise construction of this h-transform by just "forgetting" some reproduction events in the lookdown particle system. We also provide an intertwining relationship for the Wright Fisher diffusion and explicit the associated pathwise decomposition. The second example, called the linear or additive h-transform, concerns a wider class of measure valued processes with spatial motion. Applications include: -a simple description of the additive h-transform of the Generalized Fleming Viot process, which confirms a suggestion of Overbeck for the usual Fleming Viot process -an immortal particle representation for the additive h-transform of the Dawson Watanabe process.Comment: 24 page

A Constructive Method for Approximate Solution to Scalar Wiener-Hopf Equations

This paper presents a novel method of approximating the scalar Wiener-Hopf equation; and therefore constructing an approximate solution. The advantages of this method over the existing methods are reliability and explicit error bounds. Additionally the degrees of the polynomials in the rational approximation are considerably smaller than in other approaches. The need for a numerical solution is motivated by difficulties in computation of the exact solution. The approximation developed in this paper is with a view of generalisation to matrix Wiener-Hopf for which the exact solution, in general, is not known. The first part of the paper develops error bounds in Lp for 1<p<\infty. These indicate how accurately the solution is approximated in terms of how accurate the equation is approximated. The second part of the paper describes the approach of approximately solving the Wiener-Hopf equation that employs the Rational Caratheodory-Fejer Approximation. The method is adapted by constructing a mapping of the real line to the unit interval. Numerical examples to demonstrate the use of the proposed technique are included (performed on Chebfun), yielding error as small as 10^{-12} on the whole real line.Comment: AMS-LaTeX, 19 pages, 10 figures in EPS fil