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An improved bound on the Maximum Agreement Subtree problem

Populations and Evolution 2009-03-20 v1 Quantitative Methods

Abstract

We improve the lower bound on the extremal version of the Maximum Agreement Subtree problem. Namely we prove that two binary trees on the same nn leaves have subtrees with the same cloglogn\geq c\log\log n leaves which are homeomorphic, such that homeomorphism is identity on the leaves.

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@article{arxiv.0903.3386,
  title  = {An improved bound on the Maximum Agreement Subtree problem},
  author = {Laszlo Szekely and Mike Steel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3386},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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