Recombination Spaces, Metrics, and Pretopologies
Bärbel M. R. Stadler, Peter Florian Stadler, Max Shpak, Günther P. Wagner · Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie · 2002
The topological features of genotype spaces given a genetic operator have a substantial impact on the course of evolution. We explore the structure of the recombination spaces arising from five different unequal crossover models in the context of pretopological spaces. We show that four of the models are incompatible with metric distance measures due to a lack of symmetry.