On phylogenetic trees - a geometer's view
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Publication:6476585
arXivmath/0601357MaRDI QIDQ6476585FDOQ6476585
Authors: Weronika Buczyńska, Jarosław A. Wiśniewski 
Publication date: 14 January 2006
Abstract: We investigate projective varieties which are geometric models of binary symmetric phylogenetic 3-valent trees. We prove that these varieties have Gorenstein terminal singularities (with small resolution) and they are Fano varieties of index 4. Moreover any two such varieties associated to trees with the same number of leaves are deformation equivalent, that is, they are in the same connected component of the Hilbert scheme of the projective space. As an application we provide a simple formula for computing their Hilbert-Ehrhard polynomial.
Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10) Fano varieties (14J45) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)
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