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Display sets of normal and tree-child networks

Combinatorics 2021-04-13 v1

Abstract

Phylogenetic trees canonically arise as embeddings of phylogenetic networks. We recently showed that the problem of deciding if two phylogenetic networks embed the same sets of phylogenetic trees is computationally hard, \blue{in particular, we showed it to be Π2P\Pi^P_2-complete}. In this paper, we establish a polynomial-time algorithm for this decision problem if the initial two networks consists of a normal network and a tree-child network. The running time of the algorithm is quadratic in the size of the leaf sets.

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@article{arxiv.1901.06725,
  title  = {Display sets of normal and tree-child networks},
  author = {Janosch Doecker and Simone Linz and Charles Semple},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06725},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages, 6 figures