Treewidth of display graphs: bounds, brambles and applications

Janssen, Remie, Jones, Mark, Kelk, Steven, Stamoulis, Georgios and Wu, Taoyang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2663-2001 (2019) Treewidth of display graphs: bounds, brambles and applications. Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, 23 (4). pp. 715-743. ISSN 1526-1719

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Abstract

Phylogenetic trees and networks are leaf-labelled graphs used to model evolution. Display graphs are created by identifying common leaf labels in two or more phylogenetic trees or networks. The treewidth of such graphs is bounded as a function of many common dissimilarity measures between phylogenetic trees and this has been leveraged in fixed parameter tractability results. Here we further elucidate the properties of display graphs and their interaction with treewidth. We show that it is NP-hard to recognize display graphs, but that display graphs of bounded treewidth can be recognized in linear time. Next we show that if a phylogenetic network displays (i.e. topologically embeds) a phylogenetic tree, the treewidth of their display graph is bounded by a function of the treewidth of the original network (and also by various other parameters). In fact, using a bramble argument we show that this treewidth bound is sharp up to an additive term of 1. We leverage this bound to give an FPT algorithm, parameterized by treewidth, for determining whether a network displays a tree, which is an intensively-studied problem in the field. We conclude with a discussion on the future use of display graphs and treewidth in phylogenetics.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
Related URLs:	https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00907
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2019 00:39
Last Modified:	09 Oct 2024 13:35
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72169
DOI:	10.7155/jgaa.00508

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