The phylogenetic invariants conjecture for binary trees
The phylogenetic invariants conjecture for binary trees
Let be a binary tree on binary random variables, and let be the ideal of phylogenetic invariants of its general Markov model. Each edge of induces a split of the leaves, and flattening the table along a split produces a two-dimensional matrix. The phylogenetic invariants conjecture. The ideal is generated by the determinants of all such flattenings. The set-theoretic version was announced as proved by Allman and Rhodes, which identifies the radical of the determinantal ideal with ; the asserted ideal-theoretic generation remains the stronger statement.
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Lior Pachter and Bernd Sturmfels, “Tropical Geometry of Statistical Models”, arXiv:q-bio/0311009 (2004).
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