Kinetic Behaviors of a Competitive Population and Fitness System in Exchange-Driven Growth

We proposed an aggregation model of two species aggregates of fitness and population to study the interaction between the two species in their exchange-driven processes of the same species by introducing the monomer birth of fitness catalyzed by the population, where the fitness aggregates perform self-death process and the population aggregates perform self-birth process. The kinetic behaviors of the aggregate size distributions of the fitness and population were analyzed by the rate equation approach with their exchange rate kernel K₁(k,j)=K₁kj and K₂(k,j)=K₂kj, the fitness aggregate's self-death rate kernel J₁(k)=J₁k, population aggregate's self-birth rate kernel J₂(k)=J₂k and population-catalyzed fitness birth rate kernel I(k,j)=Ikj^u. The kinetic behavior of the fitness was found depending crucially on the parameter u, which reflects the dependence of the population-catalyzed fitness birth rate on the size of the catalyst (population) aggregate. (i) In the u ≤0 case, the effect of catalyzed-birth of fitness is rather weak and the exchange-driven aggregation and self-death of the fitness dominate the process, and the fitness aggregate size distribution a_k(t) does not have scale form. (ii) When u>0, the effect of the population-catalyzed birth of fitness gets strong enough, and the catalyzed-birth and self-death of the fitness aggregates, together with the self-birth of the population aggregates dominate the evolution process of the fitness aggregates. The aggregate size distribution a_k(t) approaches a generalized scaling form.