Expected number of induced subtrees shared by two independent copies of a random tree
Abstract
Consider a rooted tree with leaf-set , and with all non-leaf vertices having out-degree , at least. A rooted tree with leaf-set is induced by in if is the lowest common ancestor subtree for , with all its degree-2 vertices suppressed. A "maximum agreement subtree" (MAST) for a pair of two trees and is a tree with a largest leaf-set such that is induced by both in and . Bryant et al. \cite{BryMcKSte} and Bernstein et al. \cite{Ber} proved, among other results, that for and being two independent copies of a random binary (uniform or Yule-Harding distributed) tree , the likely magnitude order of is . We prove this bound for a wide class of random rooted trees : is a terminal tree of a branching, Galton--Watson, process with an ordered-offspring distribution of mean , conditioned on "total number of leaves is ".
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@article{arxiv.2102.05852,
title = {Expected number of induced subtrees shared by two independent copies of a random tree},
author = {Boris Pittel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05852},
year = {2021}
}
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21 pages