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Enumerative combinatorics of unlabeled and labeled time-consistent galled trees

Combinatorics 2025-04-24 v1 Populations and Evolution

Abstract

In mathematical phylogenetics, the time-consistent galled trees provide a simple class of rooted binary network structures that can be used to represent a variety of different biological phenomena. We study the enumerative combinatorics of unlabeled and labeled time-consistent galled trees. We present a new derivation via the symbolic method of the number of unlabeled time-consistent galled trees with a fixed number of leaves and a fixed number of galls. We also derive new generating functions and asymptotics for labeled time-consistent galled trees.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16302,
  title  = {Enumerative combinatorics of unlabeled and labeled time-consistent galled trees},
  author = {Lily Agranat-Tamir and Michael Fuchs and Bernhard Gittenberger and Noah A. Rosenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16302},
  year   = {2025}
}