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Let $\mathbf{v}_1,\ldots,\mathbf{v}_m$ be points in a metric space with distance $d$, and let $w_1,\ldots,w_m$ be positive real weights. The weighted Fermat-Weber points are those points $\mathbf{x}$ which minimize $\sum w_i d(\mathbf{v}_i,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Shelby Cox , Mark Curiel

We study the geometry of tropical Fermat--Weber points, that is, optimal solutions to a location problem over a projective space using a dissimilarity measure derived from the tropical metric. It is well-known that for a given sample, such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 John Sabol , David Barnhill , Ruriko Yoshida , Keiji Miura

Fermat-Weber points with respect to an asymmetric tropical distance function are studied. It turns out that they correspond to the optimal solutions of a transportation problem. The results are applied to obtain a new method for computing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Andrei Comăneci , Michael Joswig

We study a parametric version of the Fermat-Weber problem with respect to an asymmetric distance function, which occurs naturally in tropical geometry. Our results yield a method for constructing phylogenetic supertrees.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Andrei Comăneci , Michael Joswig

In the tropical projective torus, it is not guaranteed that the projection of a Fermat-Weber point of a given data set is a Fermat-Weber point of the projection of the data set. In this paper, we focus on the projection on the tropical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Weiyi Ding , Xiaoxian Tang

We extend reconstruction methods for phylogenetic trees to ultrametrics of arbitrary matroids and study the stability of these data analysis methods in the combinatorial spirit of Andreas Dress. In particular, we generalize Atteson's work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Shelby Cox , John Sabol , Roan Talbut , Ruriko Yoshida

Phylogenetic trees are the fundamental mathematical representation of evolutionary processes in biology. They are also objects of interest in pure mathematics, such as algebraic geometry and combinatorics, due to their discrete geometry.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Anthea Monod , Bo Lin , Ruriko Yoshida , Qiwen Kang

We study the geometry of metrics and convexity structures on the space of phylogenetic trees, which is here realized as the tropical linear space of all \ ultrametrics. The ${\rm CAT}(0)$-metric of Billera-Holmes-Vogtman arises from the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Bo Lin , Bernd Sturmfels , Xiaoxian Tang , Ruriko Yoshida

This paper is about the combinatorics of finite point configurations in the tropical projective space or, dually, of arrangements of finitely many tropical hyperplanes. Moreover, arrangements of finitely many tropical halfspaces can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Michael Joswig , Georg Loho

This paper presents a unified mathematical framework for inference in graphical models, building on the observation that graphical models are algebraic varieties. From this geometric viewpoint, observations generated from a model are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Lior Pachter , Bernd Sturmfels

The Fr\'{e}chet mean is a fundamental notion of central tendency defined as a minimizer of a sum of squared distances in a general metric space. In this paper, we study Fr\'{e}chet means in tropical geometry -- a piecewise linear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Kamillo Ferry , Bo Lin , Carlos Améndola , Anthea Monod , Ruriko Yoshida

When we apply comparative phylogenetic analyses to genome data, it is a well-known problem and challenge that some of given species (or taxa) often have missing genes. In such a case, we have to impute a missing part of a gene tree from a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Ruriko Yoshida

Non-Hermitian systems have been widely explored in platforms ranging from photonics to electric circuits. A defining feature of non-Hermitian systems is exceptional points (EPs), where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. Tropical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ayan Banerjee , Rimika Jaiswal , Madhusudan Manjunath , Awadhesh Narayan

We consider the question of when points in tropical affine space uniquely determine a tropical hypersurface. We introduce a notion of multiplicity of points so that this question may be meaningful even if some of the points coincide. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Drew Johnson

In this paper, we study the properties of the Fermat-Weber point for a set of fixed points, whose arrangement coincides with the vertices of a regular polygonal chain. A $k$-chain of a regular $n$-gon is the segment of the boundary of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-14 Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

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

The reliability of a phylogenetic inference method from genomic sequence data is ensured by its statistical consistency. Bayesian inference methods produce a sample of phylogenetic trees from the posterior distribution given sequence data.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-10 Alex Gavryushkin , Alexei J. Drummond

We study some discrete invariants of Newton non-degenerate polynomial maps $f : \mathbb{K}^n \to \mathbb{K}^n$ defined over an algebraically closed field of Puiseux series $\mathbb{K}$, equipped with a non-trivial valuation. It is known…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Boulos El Hilany

This paper investigates the computational geometry relevant to calculations of the Frechet mean and variance for probability distributions on the phylogenetic tree space of Billera, Holmes and Vogtmann, using the theory of probability…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Ezra Miller , Megan Owen , J. Scott Provan

We study the behavior of phylogenetic tree shapes in the tropical geometric interpretation of tree space. Tree shapes are formally referred to as tree topologies; a tree topology can also be thought of as a tree combinatorial type, which is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Bo Lin , Anthea Monod , Ruriko Yoshida
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