Definitions of parameters
| N | Diploid population size |
| N1, N2 | Effective population size at the Fav and the Neu locus, respectively |
| s, t | Selection coefficients of favorable and deleterious alleles, respectively |
| r1, r2 | Recombination fraction between Del and Fav and between Fav and Neu, respectively |
| α | Strength of directional selection = 2Ns |
| u | Rate of deleterious mutations per generation per locus |
| uf | Rate of favorable mutations per generation per population |
| μ | Rate of neutral mutations per generation per locus (nucleotide) |
| Π | Reduction factor of the fixation probability of favorable mutations |
| Φ | Fixation probability of favorable mutations |
| fH, fB | Reduction factors of the stationary level of heterozygosity due to recurrent hitchhiking events and background selection, respectively |
| h | Reduction of heterozygosity due to a single hitchhiking event |
| π | Heterozygosity per nucleotide |
| θ | Expected heterozygosity without hitchhiking (= 4N2μ) |
| H | Cumulative heterozygosity of one trajectory of a neutral allele |
| pa, pB | Allele frequencies of a and B, respectively |
| ρ | Recombination rate per nucleotide per generation |
| τ | Number of generations until the last hitchhiking event |
| ν | Number of advantageous substitutions per generation per nucleotide |