@phdthesis{10199,
  abstract     = {The design and verification of concurrent systems remains an open challenge due to the non-determinism that arises from the inter-process communication. In particular, concurrent programs are notoriously difficult both to be written correctly and to be analyzed formally, as complex thread interaction has to be accounted for. The difficulties are further exacerbated when concurrent programs get executed on modern-day hardware, which contains various buffering and caching mechanisms for efficiency reasons. This causes further subtle non-determinism, which can often produce very unintuitive behavior of the concurrent programs. Model checking is at the forefront of tackling the verification problem, where the task is to decide, given as input a concurrent system and a desired property, whether the system satisfies the property. The inherent state-space explosion problem in model checking of concurrent systems causes naïve explicit methods not to scale, thus more inventive methods are required. One such method is stateless model checking (SMC), which explores in memory-efficient manner the program executions rather than the states of the program. State-of-the-art SMC is typically coupled with partial order reduction (POR) techniques, which argue that certain executions provably produce identical system behavior, thus limiting the amount of executions one needs to explore in order to cover all possible behaviors. Another method to tackle the state-space explosion is symbolic model checking, where the considered techniques operate on a succinct implicit representation of the input system rather than explicitly accessing the system. In this thesis we present new techniques for verification of concurrent systems. We present several novel POR methods for SMC of concurrent programs under various models of semantics, some of which account for write-buffering mechanisms. Additionally, we present novel algorithms for symbolic model checking of finite-state concurrent systems, where the desired property of the systems is to ensure a formally defined notion of fairness.},
  author       = {Toman, Viktor},
  issn         = {2663-337X},
  keywords     = {concurrency, verification, model checking},
  pages        = {166},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems}},
  doi          = {10.15479/at:ista:10199},
  year         = {2021},
}

@phdthesis{10422,
  abstract     = {Those who aim to devise new materials with desirable properties usually examine present methods first. However, they will find out that some approaches can exist only conceptually without high chances to become practically useful. It seems that a numerical technique called automatic differentiation together with increasing supply of computational accelerators will soon shift many methods of the material design from the category ”unimaginable” to the category ”expensive but possible”. Approach we suggest is not an exception. Our overall goal is to have an efficient and generalizable approach allowing to solve inverse design problems. In this thesis we scratch its surface. We consider jammed systems of identical particles. And ask ourselves how the shape of those particles (or the parameters codifying it) may affect mechanical properties of the system. An indispensable part of reaching the answer is an appropriate particle parametrization. We come up with a simple, yet generalizable and purposeful scheme for it. Using our generalizable shape parameterization, we simulate the formation of a solid composed of pentagonal-like particles and measure anisotropy in the resulting elastic response. Through automatic differentiation techniques, we directly connect the shape parameters with the elastic response. Interestingly, for our system we find that less isotropic particles lead to a more isotropic elastic response. Together with other results known about our method it seems that it can be successfully generalized for different inverse design problems.},
  author       = {Piankov, Anton},
  issn         = {2791-4585},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Towards designer materials using customizable particle shape}},
  doi          = {10.15479/at:ista:10422},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{10635,
  abstract     = {The brain efficiently performs nonlinear computations through its intricate networks of spiking neurons, but how this is done remains elusive. While nonlinear computations can be implemented successfully in spiking neural networks, this requires supervised training and the resulting connectivity can be hard to interpret. In contrast, the required connectivity for any computation in the form of a linear dynamical system can be directly derived and understood with the spike coding network (SCN) framework. These networks also have biologically realistic activity patterns and are highly robust to cell death. Here we extend the SCN framework to directly implement any polynomial dynamical system, without the need for training. This results in networks requiring a mix of synapse types (fast, slow, and multiplicative), which we term multiplicative spike coding networks (mSCNs). Using mSCNs, we demonstrate how to directly derive the required connectivity for several nonlinear dynamical systems. We also show how to carry out higher-order polynomials with coupled networks that use only pair-wise multiplicative synapses, and provide expected numbers of connections for each synapse type. Overall, our work demonstrates a novel method for implementing nonlinear computations in spiking neural networks, while keeping the attractive features of standard SCNs (robustness, realistic activity patterns, and interpretable connectivity). Finally, we discuss the biological plausibility of our approach, and how the high accuracy and robustness of the approach may be of interest for neuromorphic computing.},
  author       = {Nardin, Michele and Phillips, James W. and Podlaski, William F. and Keemink, Sander W.},
  issn         = {2804-3871},
  journal      = {Peer Community Journal},
  publisher    = {Peer Community In},
  title        = {{Nonlinear computations in spiking neural networks through multiplicative synapses}},
  doi          = {10.24072/pcjournal.69},
  volume       = {1},
  year         = {2021},
}

@inproceedings{10668,
  abstract     = {Robustness to variations in lighting conditions is a key objective for any deep vision system. To this end, our paper extends the receptive field of convolutional neural networks with two residual components, ubiquitous in the visual processing system of vertebrates: On-center and off-center pathways, with an excitatory center and inhibitory surround; OOCS for short. The On-center pathway is excited by the presence of a light stimulus in its center, but not in its surround, whereas the Off-center pathway is excited by the absence of a light stimulus in its center, but not in its surround. We design OOCS pathways via a difference of Gaussians, with their variance computed analytically from the size of the receptive fields. OOCS pathways complement each other in their response to light stimuli, ensuring this way a strong edge-detection capability, and as a result an accurate and robust inference under challenging lighting conditions. We provide extensive empirical evidence showing that networks supplied with OOCS pathways gain accuracy and illumination-robustness from the novel edge representation, compared to other baselines.},
  author       = {Babaiee, Zahra and Hasani, Ramin and Lechner, Mathias and Rus, Daniela and Grosu, Radu},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  issn         = {2640-3498},
  location     = {Virtual},
  pages        = {478--489},
  publisher    = {ML Research Press},
  title        = {{On-off center-surround receptive fields for accurate and robust image classification}},
  volume       = {139},
  year         = {2021},
}

@inproceedings{10694,
  abstract     = {In a two-player zero-sum graph game the players move a token throughout a graph to produce an infinite path, which determines the winner or payoff of the game. Traditionally, the players alternate turns in moving the token. In bidding games, however, the players have budgets, and in each turn, we hold an “auction” (bidding) to determine which player moves the token: both players simultaneously submit bids and the higher bidder moves the token. The bidding mechanisms differ in their payment schemes. Bidding games were largely studied with variants of first-price bidding in which only the higher bidder pays his bid. We focus on all-pay bidding, where both players pay their bids. Finite-duration all-pay bidding games were studied and shown to be technically more challenging than their first-price counterparts. We study for the first time, infinite-duration all-pay bidding games. Our most interesting results are for mean-payoff objectives: we portray a complete picture for games played on strongly-connected graphs. We study both pure (deterministic) and mixed (probabilistic) strategies and completely characterize the optimal and almost-sure (with probability 1) payoffs the players can respectively guarantee. We show that mean-payoff games under all-pay bidding exhibit the intriguing mathematical properties of their first-price counterparts; namely, an equivalence with random-turn games in which in each turn, the player who moves is selected according to a (biased) coin toss. The equivalences for all-pay bidding are more intricate and unexpected than for first-price bidding.},
  author       = {Avni, Guy and Jecker, Ismael R and Zikelic, Dorde},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms},
  editor       = {Marx, Dániel},
  isbn         = {978-1-61197-646-5},
  location     = {Virtual},
  pages        = {617--636},
  publisher    = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics},
  title        = {{Infinite-duration all-pay bidding games}},
  doi          = {10.1137/1.9781611976465.38},
  year         = {2021},
}

@phdthesis{9022,
  abstract     = {In the first part of the thesis we consider Hermitian random matrices. Firstly, we consider sample covariance matrices XX∗ with X having independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) centred entries. We prove a Central Limit Theorem for differences of linear statistics of XX∗ and its minor after removing the first column of X. Secondly, we consider Wigner-type matrices and prove that the eigenvalue statistics near cusp singularities of the limiting density of states are universal and that they form a Pearcey process. Since the limiting eigenvalue distribution admits only square root (edge) and cubic root (cusp) singularities, this concludes the third and last remaining case of the Wigner-Dyson-Mehta universality conjecture. The main technical ingredients are an optimal local law at the cusp, and the proof of the fast relaxation to equilibrium of the Dyson Brownian motion in the cusp regime.
In the second part we consider non-Hermitian matrices X with centred i.i.d. entries. We normalise the entries of X to have variance N −1. It is well known that the empirical eigenvalue density converges to the uniform distribution on the unit disk (circular law). In the first project, we prove universality of the local eigenvalue statistics close to the edge of the spectrum. This is the non-Hermitian analogue of the TracyWidom universality at the Hermitian edge. Technically we analyse the evolution of the spectral distribution of X along the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck flow for very long time
(up to t = +∞). In the second project, we consider linear statistics of eigenvalues for macroscopic test functions f in the Sobolev space H2+ϵ and prove their convergence to the projection of the Gaussian Free Field on the unit disk. We prove this result for non-Hermitian matrices with real or complex entries. The main technical ingredients are: (i) local law for products of two resolvents at different spectral parameters, (ii) analysis of correlated Dyson Brownian motions.
In the third and final part we discuss the mathematically rigorous application of supersymmetric techniques (SUSY ) to give a lower tail estimate of the lowest singular value of X − z, with z ∈ C. More precisely, we use superbosonisation formula to give an integral representation of the resolvent of (X − z)(X − z)∗ which reduces to two and three contour integrals in the complex and real case, respectively. The rigorous analysis of these integrals is quite challenging since simple saddle point analysis cannot be applied (the main contribution comes from a non-trivial manifold). Our result
improves classical smoothing inequalities in the regime |z| ≈ 1; this result is essential to prove edge universality for i.i.d. non-Hermitian matrices.},
  author       = {Cipolloni, Giorgio},
  issn         = {2663-337X},
  pages        = {380},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Fluctuations in the spectrum of random matrices}},
  doi          = {10.15479/AT:ISTA:9022},
  year         = {2021},
}

@phdthesis{9056,
  abstract     = {In this thesis we study persistence of multi-covers of Euclidean balls and the geometric structures underlying their computation, in particular Delaunay mosaics and Voronoi tessellations. The k-fold cover for some discrete input point set consists of the space where at least k balls of radius r around the input points overlap. Persistence is a notion that captures, in some sense, the topology of the shape underlying the input. While persistence is usually computed for the union of balls, the k-fold cover is of interest as it captures local density,
and thus might approximate the shape of the input better if the input data is noisy. To compute persistence of these k-fold covers, we need a discretization that is provided by higher-order Delaunay mosaics. We present and implement a simple and efficient algorithm for the computation of higher-order Delaunay mosaics, and use it to give experimental results for their combinatorial properties. The algorithm makes use of a new geometric structure, the rhomboid tiling. It contains the higher-order Delaunay mosaics as slices, and by introducing a filtration
function on the tiling, we also obtain higher-order α-shapes as slices. These allow us to compute persistence of the multi-covers for varying radius r; the computation for varying k is less straight-foward and involves the rhomboid tiling directly. We apply our algorithms to experimental sphere packings to shed light on their structural properties. Finally, inspired by periodic structures in packings and materials, we propose and implement an algorithm for periodic Delaunay triangulations to be integrated into the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL), and discuss the implications on persistence for periodic data sets.},
  author       = {Osang, Georg F},
  issn         = {2663-337X},
  pages        = {134},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Multi-cover persistence and Delaunay mosaics}},
  doi          = {10.15479/AT:ISTA:9056},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{9121,
  abstract     = {We show that the energy gap for the BCS gap equation is
Ξ=μ(8e−2+o(1))exp(π2μ−−√a)
in the low density limit μ→0. Together with the similar result for the critical temperature by Hainzl and Seiringer (Lett Math Phys 84: 99–107, 2008), this shows that, in the low density limit, the ratio of the energy gap and critical temperature is a universal constant independent of the interaction potential V. The results hold for a class of potentials with negative scattering length a and no bound states.},
  author       = {Lauritsen, Asbjørn Bækgaard},
  issn         = {1573-0530},
  journal      = {Letters in Mathematical Physics},
  keywords     = {Mathematical Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{The BCS energy gap at low density}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s11005-021-01358-5},
  volume       = {111},
  year         = {2021},
}

@misc{9192,
  abstract     = {Here are the research data underlying the publication " Effects of fine-scale population structure on inbreeding in a long-term study of snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus)." Further information are summed up in the README document.},
  author       = {Surendranadh, Parvathy and Arathoon, Louise S and Baskett, Carina and Field, David and Pickup, Melinda and Barton, Nicholas H},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Effects of fine-scale population structure on the distribution of heterozygosity in a long-term study of Antirrhinum majus}},
  doi          = {10.15479/AT:ISTA:9192},
  year         = {2021},
}

@misc{9323,
  abstract     = {This .zip File contains the data for figures presented in the main text and supplementary material of "A singlet triplet hole spin qubit in planar Ge" by D. Jirovec, et. al. The measurements were done using Labber Software and the data is stored in the hdf5 file format. The files can be opened using either the Labber Log Browser (https://labber.org/overview/) or Labber Python API (http://labber.org/online-doc/api/LogFile.html). A single file is acquired with QCodes and features the corresponding data type. XRD data are in .dat format and a code to open the data is provided. The code for simulations is as well provided in Python.},
  author       = {Jirovec, Daniel},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Research data for "A singlet-triplet hole spin qubit planar Ge"}},
  doi          = {10.15479/AT:ISTA:9323},
  year         = {2021},
}

@misc{9327,
  abstract     = {This archive contains the missing sweater mesh animations and displacement models for the code of "Mechanics-Aware Deformation of Yarn Pattern Geometry"

Code Repository: https://git.ist.ac.at/gsperl/MADYPG},
  author       = {Sperl, Georg and Narain, Rahul and Wojtan, Christopher J},
  publisher    = {IST Austria},
  title        = {{Mechanics-Aware Deformation of Yarn Pattern Geometry (Additional Animation/Model Data)}},
  doi          = {10.15479/AT:ISTA:9327},
  year         = {2021},
}

@misc{9389,
  abstract     = {This .zip File contains the transport data for  "Non-topological zero bias peaks in full-shell nanowires induced by flux tunable Andreev states" by M. Valentini, et. al.  
The measurements were done using Labber Software and the data is stored in the hdf5 file format.
Instructions of how to read the data are in "Notebook_Valentini.pdf".},
  author       = {Valentini, Marco},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Research data for "Non-topological zero bias peaks in full-shell nanowires induced by flux tunable Andreev states"}},
  doi          = {10.15479/AT:ISTA:9389},
  year         = {2021},
}

@inbook{9403,
  abstract     = {Optimal decision making requires individuals to know their available options and to anticipate correctly what consequences these options have. In many social interactions, however, we refrain from gathering all relevant information, even if this information would help us make better decisions and is costless to obtain. This chapter examines several examples of “deliberate ignorance.” Two simple models are proposed to illustrate how ignorance can evolve among self-interested and payoff - maximizing individuals, and open problems are highlighted that lie ahead for future research to explore.},
  author       = {Schmid, Laura and Hilbe, Christian},
  booktitle    = {Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not To Know},
  editor       = {Hertwig, Ralph and Engel, Christoph},
  isbn         = {978-0-262-04559-9},
  pages        = {139--152},
  publisher    = {MIT Press},
  title        = {{The evolution of strategic ignorance in strategic interaction}},
  volume       = {29},
  year         = {2021},
}

@inproceedings{9592,
  abstract     = {The convex grabbing game is a game where two players, Alice and Bob, alternate taking extremal points from the convex hull of a point set on the plane. Rational weights are given to the points. The goal of each player is to maximize the total weight over all points that they obtain. We restrict the setting to the case of binary weights. We show a construction of an arbitrarily large odd-sized point set that allows Bob to obtain almost 3/4 of the total weight. This construction answers a question asked by Matsumoto, Nakamigawa, and Sakuma in [Graphs and Combinatorics, 36/1 (2020)]. We also present an arbitrarily large even-sized point set where Bob can obtain the entirety of the total weight. Finally, we discuss conjectures about optimum moves in the convex grabbing game for both players in general.},
  author       = {Dvorak, Martin and Nicholson, Sara},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 33rd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry},
  keywords     = {convex grabbing game, graph grabbing game, combinatorial game, convex geometry},
  location     = {Halifax, NS, Canada; Virtual},
  publisher    = {Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry},
  title        = {{Massively winning configurations in the convex grabbing game on the plane}},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{9818,
  abstract     = {Triangle mesh-based simulations are able to produce satisfying animations of knitted and woven cloth; however, they lack the rich geometric detail of yarn-level simulations. Naive texturing approaches do not consider yarn-level physics, while full yarn-level simulations may become prohibitively expensive for large garments. We propose a method to animate yarn-level cloth geometry on top of an underlying deforming mesh in a mechanics-aware fashion. Using triangle strains to interpolate precomputed yarn geometry, we are able to reproduce effects such as knit loops tightening under stretching. In combination with precomputed mesh animation or real-time mesh simulation, our method is able to animate yarn-level cloth in real-time at large scales.},
  author       = {Sperl, Georg and Narain, Rahul and Wojtan, Christopher J},
  issn         = {1557-7368},
  journal      = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  number       = {4},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  title        = {{Mechanics-aware deformation of yarn pattern geometry}},
  doi          = {10.1145/3450626.3459816},
  volume       = {40},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{6995,
  abstract     = {Human brain organoids represent a powerful tool for the study of human neurological diseases particularly those that impact brain growth and structure. However, many neurological diseases lack obvious anatomical abnormalities, yet significantly impact neural network functions, raising the question of whether organoids possess sufficient neural network architecture and complexity to model these conditions. Here, we explore the network level functions of brain organoids using calcium sensor imaging and extracellular recording approaches that together reveal the existence of complex oscillatory network behaviors reminiscent of intact brain preparations. We further demonstrate strikingly abnormal epileptiform network activity in organoids derived from a Rett Syndrome patient despite only modest anatomical differences from isogenically matched controls, and rescue with an unconventional neuromodulatory drug Pifithrin-α. Together, these findings provide an essential foundation for the utilization of human brain organoids to study intact and disordered human brain network formation and illustrate their utility in therapeutic discovery.},
  author       = {Samarasinghe, Ranmal A. and Miranda, Osvaldo and Buth, Jessie E. and Mitchell, Simon and Ferando, Isabella and Watanabe, Momoko and Kurdian, Arinnae and Golshani, Peyman and Plath, Kathrin and Lowry, William E. and Parent, Jack M. and Mody, Istvan and Novitch, Bennett G.},
  issn         = {1546-1726},
  journal      = {Nature Neuroscience},
  pages        = {32},
  publisher    = {Springer Nature},
  title        = {{Identification of neural oscillations and epileptiform changes in human brain organoids}},
  doi          = {10.1038/s41593-021-00906-5},
  volume       = {24},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{9891,
  abstract     = {Extending on ideas of Lewin, Lieb, and Seiringer [Phys. Rev. B 100, 035127 (2019)], we present a modified “floating crystal” trial state for jellium (also known as the classical homogeneous electron gas) with density equal to a characteristic function. This allows us to show that three definitions of the jellium energy coincide in dimensions d ≥ 2, thus extending the result of Cotar and Petrache [“Equality of the Jellium and uniform electron gas next-order asymptotic terms for Coulomb and Riesz potentials,” arXiv: 1707.07664 (2019)] and Lewin, Lieb, and Seiringer [Phys. Rev. B 100, 035127 (2019)] that the three definitions coincide in dimension d ≥ 3. We show that the jellium energy is also equivalent to a “renormalized energy” studied in a series of papers by Serfaty and others, and thus, by the work of Bétermin and Sandier [Constr. Approximation 47, 39–74 (2018)], we relate the jellium energy to the order n term in the logarithmic energy of n points on the unit 2-sphere. We improve upon known lower bounds for this renormalized energy. Additionally, we derive formulas for the jellium energy of periodic configurations.},
  author       = {Lauritsen, Asbjørn Bækgaard},
  issn         = {1089-7658},
  journal      = {Journal of Mathematical Physics},
  keywords     = {Mathematical Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics},
  number       = {8},
  publisher    = {AIP Publishing},
  title        = {{Floating Wigner crystal and periodic jellium configurations}},
  doi          = {10.1063/5.0053494},
  volume       = {62},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{9903,
  abstract     = {Eigenstate thermalization in quantum many-body systems implies that eigenstates at high energy are similar to random vectors. Identifying systems where at least some eigenstates are nonthermal is an outstanding question. In this Letter we show that interacting quantum models that have a nullspace—a degenerate subspace of eigenstates at zero energy (zero modes), which corresponds to infinite temperature, provide a route to nonthermal eigenstates. We analytically show the existence of a zero mode which can be represented as a matrix product state for a certain class of local Hamiltonians. In the more general case we use a subspace disentangling algorithm to generate an orthogonal basis of zero modes characterized by increasing entanglement entropy. We show evidence for an area-law entanglement scaling of the least-entangled zero mode in the broad parameter regime, leading to a conjecture that all local Hamiltonians with the nullspace feature zero modes with area-law entanglement scaling and, as such, break the strong thermalization hypothesis. Finally, we find zero modes in constrained models and propose a setup for observing their experimental signatures.},
  author       = {Karle, Volker and Serbyn, Maksym and Michailidis, Alexios},
  issn         = {1079-7114},
  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},
  number       = {6},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Area-law entangled eigenstates from nullspaces of local Hamiltonians}},
  doi          = {10.1103/physrevlett.127.060602},
  volume       = {127},
  year         = {2021},
}

@phdthesis{9920,
  abstract     = {This work is concerned with two fascinating circuit quantum electrodynamics components, the Josephson junction and the geometric superinductor, and the interesting experiments that can be done by combining the two. The Josephson junction has revolutionized the field of superconducting circuits as a non-linear dissipation-less circuit element and is used in almost all superconducting qubit implementations since the 90s. On the other hand, the superinductor is a relatively new circuit element introduced as a key component of the fluxonium qubit in 2009. This is an inductor with characteristic impedance larger than the resistance quantum and self-resonance frequency in the GHz regime. The combination of these two elements can occur in two fundamental ways: in parallel and in series. When connected in parallel the two create the fluxonium qubit, a loop with large inductance and a rich energy spectrum reliant on quantum tunneling. On the other hand placing the two elements in series aids with the measurement of the IV curve of a single Josephson junction in a high impedance environment. In this limit theory predicts that the junction will behave as its dual element: the phase-slip junction. While the Josephson junction acts as a non-linear inductor the phase-slip junction has the behavior of a non-linear capacitance and can be used to measure new Josephson junction phenomena, namely Coulomb blockade of Cooper pairs and phase-locked Bloch oscillations. The latter experiment allows for a direct link between frequency and current which is an elusive connection in quantum metrology. This work introduces the geometric superinductor, a superconducting circuit element where the high inductance is due to the geometry rather than the material properties of the superconductor, realized from a highly miniaturized superconducting planar coil. These structures will be described and characterized as resonators and qubit inductors and progress towards the measurement of phase-locked Bloch oscillations will be presented.},
  author       = {Peruzzo, Matilda},
  isbn         = {978-3-99078-013-8},
  issn         = {2663-337X},
  keywords     = {quantum computing, superinductor, quantum metrology},
  pages        = {149},
  publisher    = {Institute of Science and Technology Austria},
  title        = {{Geometric superinductors and their applications in circuit quantum electrodynamics}},
  doi          = {10.15479/at:ista:9920},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{9387,
  abstract     = {We report the complete analysis of a deterministic model of deleterious mutations and negative selection against them at two haploid loci without recombination. As long as mutation is a weaker force than selection, mutant alleles remain rare at the only stable equilibrium, and otherwise, a variety of dynamics are possible. If the mutation-free genotype is absent, generally the only stable equilibrium is the one that corresponds to fixation of the mutant allele at the locus where it is less deleterious. This result suggests that fixation of a deleterious allele that follows a click of the Muller’s ratchet is governed by natural selection, instead of random drift.},
  author       = {Khudiakova, Kseniia and Neretina, Tatiana Yu. and Kondrashov, Alexey S.},
  issn         = {0022-5193},
  journal      = {Journal of Theoretical Biology},
  keywords     = {General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Modelling and Simulation, Statistics and Probability, General Immunology and Microbiology, Applied Mathematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, General Medicine},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Two linked loci under mutation-selection balance and Muller’s ratchet}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110729},
  volume       = {524},
  year         = {2021},
}

