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Multiscale Structure in Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics by Blake Stacey in 2015

stochastic processes, renormalization, papers

this is the PhD thesis of Blake Stacey. it is tagged as a papers because it is in the mendeley papers library as opposed to the book even though, as a thesis, it really is better classified as a book

1. Abstract

2. Multiscale structure

3. Host-consumer evolution by simulation

4. A volunteer’s dilemma

5. Techniques of probability

5.5 Moments and cumulants

5.6 Generating functions

5.7 Central limit theorem

5.8 Variations on diffusion

6. Stochastic adaptive dynamics

6.1 Justifying the Fokker-Planck equation

6.2 The deterministic limit

6.3 A Fokker-Planck equation for adaptive dynamics

6.4 Concurrent mutations, discreteness and multi-strategy games

6.5 Interspecies interactions

7. Spatial stochastic mechanics key subsection, renormalization, example

7.1 The central limit theorem by RG transformations

7.2 Isotropic percolation

7.3 Doi formalism

7.4 Examples

7.5 Coherent-state path integrals

7.6 Spatial dependence

7.7 Rate equations from tree-level calculations

7.8 Directed percolation

7.9 Prior relevant results and difficulties

7.10 Carrying capacity

7.11 A common denominator

8. Invasion fitness by moment closure approximations

9. The varieties of multilevel selection

10. Speculations for new mathematics

11. Conclusions