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In this note we classify when a skew Schur function is a positive linear combination of power sum symmetric functions. We then use this to determine precisely when any scalar multiple of a skew Schur function is the chromatic symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-03 Soojin Cho , Stephanie van Willigenburg

A well-known result of Stanley's shows that given a graph $G$ with chromatic symmetric function expanded into the basis of elementary symmetric functions as $X_G = \sum c_{\lambda}e_{\lambda}$, the sum of the coefficients $c_{\lambda}$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Logan Crew , Yongxing Zhang

We prove some Schur positivity results for the chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ of a (hyper)graph $G$, using connections to the group algebra of the symmetric group. The first such connection works for (hyper)forests $F$: we describe the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Brendan Pawlowski

As shown in our paper [JCTA 177 (2021), Paper No. 105305], the chromatic quasi-symmetric function of Shareshian-Wachs can be lifted to ${\bf WQSym}$, the algebra of quasi-symmetric functions in noncommuting variables. We investigate here…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Jean-Christophe Novelli , Jean-Yves Thibon

In this paper, we introduce and study two variants of the chromatic quasisymmetric function of a graph: the total chromatic quasisymmetric function via vertex labeling and via acyclic orientations. The original definition of the chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Laura Colmenarejo , Ian Klein

In 1995 Stanley conjectured that the chromatic symmetric functions of the graphs $P_{d,2}$, which we call triangular ladders, were $e$-positive. In this paper we confirm this conjecture, which is also an unsolved case of the celebrated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Samantha Dahlberg

We study the symmetric functions \( g_{\mm,k}(x;q) \), introduced by Abreu and Nigro for a Hessenberg function \( \mm \) and a positive integer \( k \), which refine the chromatic symmetric function. Building on Hikita's recent breakthrough…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 JiSun Huh , Byung-Hak Hwang , Donghyun Kim , Jang Soo Kim , Jaeseong Oh

We introduce a quasisymmetric generalization of Berele and Regev's hook Schur functions and prove that these new quasisymmetric hook Schur functions decompose the hook Schur functions in a natural way. We examine the combinatorics of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Sarah K Mason , Elizabeth Niese

In this work, we generalize and utilize the linear relations of LLT polynomials introduced by Lee \cite{Lee}. By using the fact that the chromatic quasisymmetric functions and the unicellular LLT polynomials are related via plethystic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-11 JiSun Huh , Sun-Young Nam , Meesue Yoo

In 1995 Stanley introduced a generalization of the chromatic polynomial of a graph $G$, called the chromatic symmetric function, $X_G$, which was generalized to noncommuting variables, $Y_G$, by Gebhard-Sagan in 2001. Recently there has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Samantha Dahlberg , Stephanie van Willigenburg

Stanley's symmetrized chromatic polynomial is a generalization of the ordinary chromatic polynomial to a graph invariant with values in a ring of polynomials in infnitely many variables. The ordinary chromatic polynomial is a specialization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Marina Dudina , Vyacheslav Zhukov

We study the chromatic quasisymmetric class function of a linearized combinatorial Hopf monoid. Given a linearized combinatorial Hopf monoid $H$, and an $H$-structure $h$ on a set $N$, there are proper colorings of $h$, generalizing graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Jacob A. White

Let G be a graph, and let $\chi$G be its chromatic polynomial. For any non-negative integers i, j, we give an interpretation for the evaluation $\chi$ (i) G (--j) in terms of acyclic orientations. This recovers the classical interpretations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Olivier Bernardi , Philippe Nadeau

Richard Stanley defined the chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ of a graph $G$ and asked whether there are non-isomorphic trees $T$ and $U$ with $X_T=X_U$. We study variants of the chromatic symmetric function for rooted graphs, where we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Nicholas A. Loehr , Gregory S. Warrington

Eulerian quasisymmetric functions were introduced by Shareshian and Wachs in order to obtain a q-analog of Euler's exponential generating function formula for the Eulerian numbers. They are defined via the symmetric group, and applying the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-07 Matthew Hyatt

Let $\mathfrak g$ be a Borcherds algebra with the associated graph $G$. We prove that the chromatic symmetric function of $G$ can be recovered from the Weyl denominator identity of $\mathfrak g$ and this gives a Lie theoretic proof of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-21 G. Arunkumar

The Stanley chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ of a graph $G$ is a symmetric function generalization of the chromatic polynomial, and has interesting combinatorial properties. We apply the ideas of Khovanov homology to construct a homology…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Radmila Sazdanovic , Martha Yip

We study a $q$-version of the chromatic polynomial of a given graph $G=(V,E)$, namely, \[ \chi_G^\lambda(q,n) \ := \sum_{\substack{\text{proper colorings}\\ c\,:\,V\to[n]}} q^{ \sum_{ v \in V } \lambda_v c(v) }, \] where $\lambda \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Esme Bajo , Matthias Beck , Andrés R. Vindas-Meléndez

We investigate chromatic symmetric functions in the relation to the algebra $\Gamma$ of symmetric functions generated by Schur $Q$-functions. We construct natural bases of $\Gamma$ in terms of chromatic symmetric functions. We also consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Soojin Cho , JiSun Huh , Sun-Young Nam

Recently, Hyatt introduced some colored Eulerian quasisymmetric function to study the joint distribution of excedance number and major index on colored permutation groups. We show how Hyatt's generating function formula for the fixed point…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Zhicong Lin