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Enumeration of rooted binary perfect phylogenies

Populations and Evolution 2024-10-22 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Rooted binary perfect phylogenies provide a generalization of rooted binary unlabeled trees in which each leaf is assigned a positive integer value that corresponds in a biological setting to the count of the number of indistinguishable lineages associated with the leaf. For the rooted binary unlabeled trees, these integers equal 1. We address a variety of enumerative problems concerning rooted binary perfect phylogenies with sample size ss: the rooted binary unlabeled trees in which a sample of size ss lineages is distributed across the leaves of an unlabeled tree with nn leaves, 1ns1 \leq n \leq s. The enumerations further characterize the rooted binary perfect phylogenies, which include the rooted binary unlabeled trees, and which can provide a set of structures useful for various biological contexts.

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@article{arxiv.2410.14915,
  title  = {Enumeration of rooted binary perfect phylogenies},
  author = {Chloe E. Shiff and Noah A. Rosenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14915},
  year   = {2024}
}
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