Normality of the Kimura 3-parameter model

2019/02/28 by Vodička, Martin
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.11057

Abstract

The Kimura 3-parameter model is one of the most fundamental phylogenetic models in algebraic statistics. We prove that all algebraic varieties associated to this model are projectively normal, confirming a conjecture of Michalek.

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