Identifying \(X\)-trees with few characters
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 13 (2006)
Previous work has shown the perhaps surprising result that, for any binary phylogenetic tree ${\cal T}$, there is a set of four characters that define ${\cal T}$. Here we deal with the general case, where ${\cal T}$ is an arbitrary $X$-tree. We show that if $d$ is the maximum degree of any vertex in ${\cal T}$, then the minimum number of characters that identify ${\cal T}$ is $\log_2 d$ (up to a small multiplicative constant).
@article{10_37236_1109,
author = {Magnus Bordewich and Charles Semple and Mike Steel},
title = {Identifying {\(X\)-trees} with few characters},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2006},
volume = {13},
doi = {10.37236/1109},
zbl = {1106.92052},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/1109/}
}
Magnus Bordewich; Charles Semple; Mike Steel. Identifying \(X\)-trees with few characters. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 13 (2006). doi: 10.37236/1109
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