Evolutionary trees and the Ising model on the Bethe lattice: a proof of Steel’s conjecture
Evolutionary trees and the Ising model on the Bethe lattice: a proof of Steel’s conjecture
A major task of evolutionary biology is the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from molecular data. The evolutionary model is given by a Markov chain on a tree. Given samples from the leaves of the Markov chain, the goal is to reconstruct the leaf-labelled tree. It is well known that in …