# Tropical Fermat-Weber Points

@article{Lin2018TropicalFP,
title={Tropical Fermat-Weber Points},
author={Bo Lin and R. Yoshida},
journal={SIAM J. Discret. Math.},
year={2018},
volume={32},
pages={1229-1245}
}
• Published 2018
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• SIAM J. Discret. Math.
• In a metric space, the Fermat--Weber points of a sample are statistics to measure the central tendency of the sample and it is well known that the Fermat--Weber point of a sample is not necessarily unique in the metric space. We investigate the computation of Fermat--Weber points under the tropical metric on the quotient space $\mathbb{R}^{n} \!/ \mathbb{R} {1}$ with a fixed $n \in \mathbb{N}$, motivated by its application to the space of equidistant phylogenetic trees with $N$ leaves (in this… CONTINUE READING
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