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In the study of rooted phylogenetic networks, analyzing the set of rooted phylogenetic trees that are embedded in such a network is a recurring task. From an algorithmic viewpoint, this analysis almost always requires an exhaustive search of a particular multiset $S$ of rooted phylogenetic trees that are embedded in a rooted phylogenetic network $mathcal{N}$. Since the size of $S$ is exponential in the number of reticulations of $mathcal{N}$, it is consequently of interest to keep this number as small as possible but without loosing any element of $S$. In this paper, we take a first step towards this goal by introducing the notion of a non-essential arc of $mathcal{N}$, which is an arc whose deletion from $mathcal{N}$ results in a rooted phylogenetic network $mathcal{N}$ such that the sets of rooted phylogenetic trees that are embedded in $mathcal{N}$ and $mathcal{N}$ are the same. We investigate the popular class of tree-child networks and characterize which arcs are non-essential. This characterization is based on a family of directed graphs. Using this novel characterization, we show that identifying and deleting all non-essential arcs in a tree-child network takes time that is cubic in the number of leaves of the network. Moreover, we show that deciding if a given arc of an arbitrary phylogenetic network is non-essential is $Pi_2^P$-complete.
Rooted phylogenetic networks provide a more complete representation of the ancestral relationship between species than phylogenetic trees when reticulate evolutionary processes are at play. One way to reconstruct a phylogenetic network is to consider
Rooted phylogenetic networks provide an explicit representation of the evolutionary history of a set $X$ of sampled species. In contrast to phylogenetic trees which show only speciation events, networks can also accommodate reticulate processes (for
Because biological processes can make different loci have different evolutionary histories, species tree estimation requires multiple loci from across the genome. While many processes can result in discord between gene trees and species trees, incomp
Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees allowing for the representation of non-treelike evolutionary events such as hybridization. Typically, such networks have been analyzed based on their `level, i.e. based on the complexit
Tree-child networks, one of the prominent network classes in phylogenetics, have been introduced for the purpose of modeling reticulate evolution. Recently, the first author together with Gittenberger and Mansouri (2019) showed that the number ${rm T