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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}
}

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17 pages, 12 figures

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