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Dissimilarity measures for (possibly weighted) phylogenetic trees based on the comparison of their vectors of path lengths between pairs of taxa, have been present in the systematics literature since the early seventies. But, as far as…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-07-06 Gabriel Cardona , Merce Llabres , Francesc Rossello , Gabriel Valiente

This paper shows that over infinite trees, satisfiability is decidable for weak monadic second-order logic extended by the unbounding quantifier U and quantification over infinite paths. The proof is by reduction to emptiness for a certain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Mikołaj Bojańczyk

We consider sequences of finite weighted random graphs that converge locally to unimodular i.i.d. weighted random trees. When the weights are atomless, we prove that the matchings of maximal weight converge locally to a matching on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Nathanaël Enriquez , Mike Liu , Laurent Ménard , Vianney Perchet

We analyse the friendship paradox on finite and infinite trees. In particular, we monitor the vertices for which the friendship-bias is positive, neutral and negative, respectively. For an arbitrary finite tree, we show that the number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Rajat Subhra Hazra , Frank den Hollander , Nelly Litvak , Azadeh Parvaneh

We generalise various theorems for finding indiscernible trees and arrays to positive logic: based on an existing modelling theorem for s-trees, we prove modelling theorems for str-trees, str$_0$-trees (the reduct of str-trees that forgets…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Mark Kamsma

Given a finite metric, one can construct its tight span, a geometric object representing the metric. The dimension of a tight span encodes, among other things, the size of the space of explanatory trees for that metric; for instance, if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mike Develin

This paper investigates some properties of the number of subtrees of a tree with given degree sequence. These results are used to characterize trees with the given degree sequence that have the largest number of subtrees, which generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Xiu-Mei Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang , Daniel Gray , Hua Wang

Topological phylogenetic trees can be assigned edge weights in several natural ways, highlighting different aspects of the tree. Here the rooted triple and quartet metrizations are introduced, and applied to formulate novel fast methods of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-15 John A. Rhodes

A variation of ordered trees, where each rightmost edge might be marked or not, if it does not lead to an endnode, is investigated. These marked ordered trees were introduced by E. Deutsch et al.\ to model skew Dyck paths. We study the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Helmut Prodinger

We show that, consistently, there can be maximal subtrees of P (omega) and P (omega) / fin of arbitrary regular uncountable size below the size of the continuum. We also show that there are no maximal subtrees of P (omega) / fin with…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Joerg Brendle

We divide the class of infinite computable trees into three types. For the first and second types, $0'$ computes a nontrivial self-embedding while for the third type $0''$ computes a nontrivial self-embedding. These results are optimal and…

Tropical geometry with the max-plus algebra has been applied to statistical learning models over tree spaces because geometry with the tropical metric over tree spaces has some nice properties such as convexity in terms of the tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Ruriko Yoshida , Shelby Cox

We give exact values and bounds on the isoperimetric peak of complete trees, improving on known results. For the complete $q$-ary tree of depth $d$, if $q\ge 5$, then we find that the isoperimetric peak equals $d$, completing an open…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Anthony Bonato , Lazar Mandic , Trent G. Marbach , Matthew Ritchie

We examine the behavior of the sequences of $p$-adic valuations of quadratic polynomials with integer coefficients for an odd prime $p$ through tree representations. Under this representation, a finite tree corresponds to a periodic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Will Boultinghouse , Emily Hammett , Stephen Hu , Olena Kozhushkina , Rachel Snyder , Justin Trulen

We here investigate on the complexity of computing the \emph{tree-length} and the \emph{tree-breadth} of any graph $G$, that are respectively the best possible upper-bounds on the diameter and the radius of the bags in a tree decomposition…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Guillaume Ducoffe , Sylvain Legay , Nicolas Nisse

An $\alpha$-thin tree $T$ of a graph $G$ is a spanning tree such that every cut of $G$ has at most an $\alpha$ proportion of its edges in $T$. The Thin Tree Conjecture proposes that there exists a function $f$ such that for any $\alpha >…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Alice Moayyedi

The $\sigma$-irregularity index of a graph is defined as the sum of squared degree differences over all edges and provides a sensitive measure of structural heterogeneity. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing $\sigma(T)$ among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Milan Bašić

A finite \emph{one-sided tree} of height $h$ is defined as a rooted planar tree obtained by grafting branches on one side, say the right, of a spine, i.e. a linear path of length $h$ starting at the root, such that the resulting tree has no…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Bergfinnur Durhuus , Meltem Ünel

The \textit{eccentricity matrix} $\mathcal{E}(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is obtained from the distance matrix of $G$ by keeping the largest non-zero entries in each row and each column, and leaving zeros in the remaining ones. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Iswar Mahato , M. Rajesh Kannan

We introduce a new class of tree-based models, P-Trees, for analyzing (unbalanced) panel of individual asset returns, generalizing high-dimensional sorting with economic guidance and interpretability. Under the mean-variance efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Lin William Cong , Guanhao Feng , Jingyu He , Xin He