Operads and phylogenetic trees

We construct an operad Phyl whose operations are the edge-labelled trees used in phylogenetics. This operad is the coproduct of Com, the operad for commutative semigroups, and $[0,\infty)$, the operad with unary operations corresponding to nonnegative real numbers, where composition is addition. We...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baez, JC, Otter, N
Format: Journal article
Published: Mount Allison University 2017