Conjecture on the number of projection cones defining maximal cells in equidistant tree space
Let be the space whose maximal cells arise from projection cones associated with equidistant trees, and let a maximal cell mean a maximal-dimensional cell of . A projection cone is the cone of data vectors that orthogonally project onto a given non-degenerate equidistant tree.
Projection-cone bound conjecture. Every maximal cell in is obtained as the intersection of at most projection cones.
The preceding theorem shows that some maximal cells are intersections of at least projection cones, so the conjecture would make this bound sharp. The source gives no proof of the upper bound.
References
Primary source
Conor Fahey, Serkan Hosten, Nathan Krieger and Leslie Timpe, “Least Squares Methods for Equidistant Tree Reconstruction”, arXiv:0808.3979 (2008).
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