Christopher Manon - Phylogenetic trees and the tropical geometry of flag varieties

dmtcs:3058 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2012, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3058
Phylogenetic trees and the tropical geometry of flag varietiesArticle

Authors: Christopher Manon 1

  • 1 Department of Mathematics [Berkeley]

We will discuss some recent theorems relating the space of weighted phylogenetic trees to the tropical varieties of each flag variety of type A. We will also discuss the tropicalizations of the functions corresponding to semi-standard tableaux, in particular we relate them to familiar functions from phylogenetics. We close with some remarks on the generalization of these results to the tropical geometry of arbitrary flag varieties. This involves the family of Bergman complexes derived from the hyperplane arrangements associated to simple Dynkin diagrams.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR, 24th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2012)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2012
Imported on: January 31, 2017
Keywords: Combinatorial Representation Theory, Flag Variety, Phylogenetics, Tropical Geometry,[INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]
Funding:
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  • PostDoctoral Research Fellowship; Funder: National Science Foundation; Code: 0902710

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