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most citedDirac mass dynamics in multidimensional nonlocal parabolic equations

123 citations · 404 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

math.PR2026

From stochastic individual-based models to free-boundary Hamilton-Jacobi equations

Nicolas Champagnat, Sylvie Méléard, Sepideh Mirrahimi +1

We study a stochastic branching model for a population structured by a quantitative phenotypic trait and subject to births, deaths, and mutations. In a regime of large population a…

math.AP2025

Concentration in selection-mutation models: error estimates and asymptotic expansions

Caroline Guinet, Sepideh Mirrahimi, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

In this paper, we study an integro-differential equation which describes the evolutionary dynamics of a population structured by a phenotypic trait. This population undergoes asexu…

math.AP2025

A Hamilton-Jacobi approach for the evolutionary dynamics of a model with gene transfer: characterizing monomorphic dynamics for non-concave fitness functions

Alejandro Gárriz, Sepideh Mirrahimi

We study the asymptotic behavior of an integro-dierential equation describing the evolutionary adaptation of a population structured by a phenotypic trait. The model takes into acc…

math.AP2023★ 2 cited

A moment-based approach for the analysis of the infinitesimal model in the regime of small variance

J Guerand, M Hillairet, S Mirrahimi

We provide an asymptotic analysis of a nonlinear integro-differential equation describing the evolutionary dynamics of a population which reproduces sexually and which is subject t…

math.AP2023

Impact of the horizontal gene transfer on the evolutionary equilibria of a population

Alejandro Gárriz, Alexis Léculier, Sepideh Mirrahimi

How does the interplay between selection, mutation and horizontal gene transfer modify the phenotypic distribution of a bacterial or cell population? While horizontal gene transfer…

math.PR2022★ 2 cited

Filling the gap between individual-based evolutionary models and Hamilton-Jacobi equations

Nicolas Champagnat, Sylvie Méléard, Sepideh Mirrahimi +1

We consider a stochastic model for the evolution of a discrete population structured by a trait with values on a finite grid of the torus, and with mutation and selection. Traits a…

math.AP2021★ 4 cited

Dynamics of dirac concentrations in the evolution of quantitative alleles with sexual reproduction

Léonard Dekens, Sepideh Mirrahimi

A proper understanding of the links between varying gene expression levels and complex trait adaptation is still lacking, despite recent advances in sequencing techniques leading t…

math.AP2021★ 1 cited

Adaptation to a heterogeneous patchy environment with nonlocal dispersion

Alexis Léculier, Sepideh Mirrahimi

In this work, we provide an asymptotic analysis of the solutions to an elliptic integro-differential equation. This equation describes the evolutionary equilibria of a phenotypical…

math.AP2021

Selection and mutation in a shifting and fluctuating environment

Susely Figueroa Iglesias, Sepideh Mirrahimi

We study the evolutionary dynamics of a phenotypically structured population in a changing environment , where the environmental conditions vary with a linear trend but in an oscil…

math.NA2020

A Fokker-Planck approach to the study of robustness in gene expression

Pierre Degond, Maxime Herda, Sepideh Mirrahimi

We study several Fokker-Planck equations arising from a stochastic chemical kinetic system modeling a gene regulatory network in biology. The densities solving the Fokker-Planck eq…

math.AP2020

Survival criterion for a population subject to selection and mutations ; Application to temporally piecewise constant environments

Manon Costa, Christèle Etchegaray, Sepideh Mirrahimi

We study a parabolic Lotka-Volterra type equation that describes the evolution of a population structured by a phenotypic trait, under the effects of mutations and competition for…

math.AP2019

Propagation in a fractional reaction-diffusion equation in a periodically hostile environment

Alexis Léculier, Sepideh Mirrahimi, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

We provide an asymptotic analysis of a fractional Fisher-KPP type equation in periodic non-connected 1-dimensional media with Dirichlet conditions outside the domain. After demonst…

math.AP2018

Non-local competition slows down front acceleration during dispersal evolution

Vincent Calvez, Christopher Henderson, Sepideh Mirrahimi +2

We investigate the super-linear spreading in a reaction-diffusion model analogous to the Fisher-KPP equation, but in which the population is heterogeneous with respect to the dispe…

math.AP2018

Singular limits for models of selection and mutations with heavy-tailed mutation distribution

Sepideh Mirrahimi

In this article, we perform an asymptotic analysis of a nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation, with a fractional laplacian as the diffusion term and with a nonlocal reaction term. S…

math.AP2018★ 20 cited

A Hamilton-Jacobi method to describe the evolutionary equilibria in heterogeneous environments and with non-vanishing effects of mutations

Sepideh Mirrahimi, Sylvain Gandon

In this note, we characterize the solution of a system of elliptic integro-differential equations describing a phe-notypically structured population subject to mutation, selection…

math.AP2018★ 33 cited

Long time evolutionary dynamics of phenotypically structured populations in time periodic environments

Susely Figueroa Iglesias, Sepideh Mirrahimi

We study the long time behavior of a parabolic Lotka-Volterra type equation considering a time-periodic growth rate with non-local competition. Such equation describes the dynamics…

math.AP2016★ 26 cited

A Hamilton-Jacobi approach to characterize the evolutionary equilibria in heterogeneous environments

Sepideh Mirrahimi

In this work, we characterize the solution of a system of elliptic integro-differential equations describing a phenotypically structured population subject to mutation, selection a…

math.AP2015★ 25 cited

A class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with constraint: uniqueness and constructive approach

Sepideh Mirrahimi, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

We discuss a class of time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations, where an unknown function of time is intended to keep the maximum of the solution to the constant value 0. Our main…

math.AP2015★ 4 cited

Uniqueness in a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with constraints

Sepideh Mirrahimi, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

In this note, we discuss a class of time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations depending on a function of time, this function being chosen in order to keep the maximum of the solutio…

math.AP2014

Asymptotic analysis of a selection model with space

Sepideh Mirrahimi, Benoit Perthame

Selection of a phenotypical trait can be described in mathematical terms by 'stage structured' equations which are usually written under the form of integral equations so as to exp…

math.AP2014

Singular limits for reaction-diffusion equations with fractional Laplacian and local or nonlocal nonlinearity

Sylvie Méléard, Sepideh Mirrahimi

We perform an asymptotic analysis of models of population dynamics with a fractional Laplacian and local or nonlocal reaction terms. The first part of the paper is devoted to the l…

math.AP2014

Influence of a spatial structure on the long time behavior of a competitive Lotka-Volterra type system

Hélène Leman, Sylvie Meleard, Sepideh Mirrahimi

To describe population dynamics, it is crucial to take into account jointly evolution mechanisms and spatial motion. However, the models which include these both aspects, are not s…

math.AP2013

A Hamilton-Jacobi approach for a model of population structured by space and trait

Emeric Bouin, Sepideh Mirrahimi

We study a non-local parabolic Lotka-Volterra type equation describing a population structured by a space variable x 2 Rd and a phenotypical trait 2 . Considering diffusion, mutati…

math.AP2013

Time fluctuations in a population model of adaptive dynamics

Sepideh Mirrahimi, Benoit Perthame, Panagiotis E. Souganidis

We study the dynamics of phenotypically structured populations in environments with fluctuations. In particular, using novel arguments from the theories of Hamilton-Jacobi equation…