The maximum agreement subtree problem

An improved bound on the maximum agreement subtree problem

We improve the lower bound on the extremal version of the Maximum Agreement Subtree problem. Namely we prove that two binary trees on the same n leaves have subtrees with the same ≥ c log log n leaves which are homeomorphic, such that homeomorphism is identity on the leaves.

Approximating the Maximum Isomorphi Agreement Subtree is

Bounds on the Expected Size of the Maximum Agreement Subtree

We prove polynomial upper and lower bounds on the expected size of the maximum agreement subtree of two random binary phylogenetic trees under both the uniform distribution and Yule-Harding distribution. This positively answers a question posed in earlier work. Determining tight upper and lower bounds remains an open problem.

An O(n log n) Algorithm for the Maximum Agreement Subtree Problem for Binary Trees

The Maximum Agreement Subtree problem is the following: given two rooted trees whose leaves are drawn from the same set of items (e.g., species), find the largest subset of these items so that the portions of the two trees restricted to these items are isomorphic. We consider the case which occurs frequently in practice, i.e., the case when the trees are binary, and give an O(n logn) time algor...

Approximating the Maximum Isomorphic Agreement Subtree Is Hard

The Maximum Isomorphic Agreement Subtree (MIT) problem is one of the simplest versions of the Maximum Interval Weight Agreement Subtree method (MIWT) which is used to compare phylogenies. More precisely MIT allows to provide a subset of the species such that the exact distances between species in such subset are preserved among all evolutionary trees considered. In this paper, the approximation...