Dissimilarity vectors of trees are contained in the tropical Grassmannian (Q2380417)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5686971
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    Dissimilarity vectors of trees are contained in the tropical Grassmannian
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5686971

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      Dissimilarity vectors of trees are contained in the tropical Grassmannian (English)
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      26 March 2010
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      Summary: In this short writing, we prove that the set of \(m\)-dissimilarity vectors of phylogenetic \(n\)-trees is contained in the tropical Grassmannian \(\mathcal G_{m,n}\), answering a question of Pachter and Speyer. We do this by proving an equivalent conjecture proposed by Cools.
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      dissimilarity vectors
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      phylogenetic tree
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      tropical Grassmannian
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