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Universal rooted phylogenetic tree shapes and universal tanglegrams

Combinatorics 2023-08-15 v1

Abstract

We provide an Ω(nlogn)\Omega(n\log n) lower bound and an O(n2)O(n^2) upper bound for the smallest size of rooted binary trees (a.k.a. phylogenetic tree shapes), which are universal for rooted binary trees with nn leaves, i.e., contain all of them as induced binary subtrees. We explicitly compute the smallest universal trees for n11n\leq 11. We also provide an Ω(n2)\Omega(n^2) lower bound and an O(n4)O(n^4) upper bound for the smallest size of tanglegrams, which are universal for size nn tanglegrams, i.e., which contain all of them as induced subtanglegrams. Some of our results generalize to rooted dd-ary trees and to dd-ary tanglegrams.

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@article{arxiv.2308.06580,
  title  = {Universal rooted phylogenetic tree shapes and universal tanglegrams},
  author = {Ann Clifton and Eva Czabarka and Kevin Liu and Sarah Loeb and Utku Okur and Laszlo Szekely and Kristina Wicke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.06580},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, 14 figures

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