Skeletal Rigidity of Phylogenetic Trees
Computational Geometry
2015-06-16 v1 Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Algebraic Geometry
Populations and Evolution
Abstract
Motivated by geometric origami and the straight skeleton construction, we outline a map between spaces of phylogenetic trees and spaces of planar polygons. The limitations of this map is studied through explicit examples, culminating in proving a structural rigidity result.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1203.5782,
title = {Skeletal Rigidity of Phylogenetic Trees},
author = {Howard Cheng and Satyan L. Devadoss and Brian Li and Andrej Risteski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5782},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, 12 figures