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We define vertex-colourings for edge-partitioned digraphs, which unify the theory of P-partitions and proper vertex-colourings of graphs. We use our vertex-colourings to define generalized chromatic functions, which merge the chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Farid Aliniaeifard , Shu Xiao Li , Stephanie van Willigenburg

We prove that the chromatic symmetric function of any $n$-vertex tree containing a vertex of degree $d\geq \log _2n +1$ is not $e$-positive, that is, not a positive linear combination of elementary symmetric functions. Generalizing this, we…

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

We express the integral form Macdonald polynomials as a weighted sum of Shareshian and Wachs' chromatic quasisymmetric functions of certain graphs. Then we use known expansions of these chromatic quasisymmetric functions into Schur and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-26 James Haglund , Andrew Timothy Wilson

We study a multi-symmetric generalization of the classical Schur functions called the multi-symmetric Schur functions. These functions form an integral basis for the ring of multi-symmetric functions indexed by tuples of partitions and are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Milo Bechtloff Weising

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

In this paper we introduce doubly symmetric functions, arising from the equivalence of particular linear combinations of Schur functions and hook Schur functions. We study algebraic and combinatorial aspects of doubly symmetric functions,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-01 Allan Berele , Bridget Eileen Tenner

Richard P. Stanley defined the chromatic symmetric function of a simple graph and has conjectured that every tree is determined by its chromatic symmetric function. Recently, Takahiro Hasebe and the author proved that the order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Shuhei Tsujie

Stanley [9] introduced the chromatic symmetric function ${\bf X}_G$ associated to a simple graph $G$ as a generalization of the chromatic polynomial of $G$. In this paper we present a novel technique to write ${\bf X}_G$ as a linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Rosa Orellana , Geoffrey Scott

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

Cylindric Schur functions are a family of symmetric functions that generalize skew Schur functions. We give a short proof that skew cylindric Schur functions expand positively in terms of non-skew cylindric Schur functions. In particular,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Alexander Dobner

We describe how the chromatic symmetric function of two graphs glued at a single vertex can be expressed as a matrix multiplication using certain information of the two individual graphs. We then prove new $e$-positivity results by using a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Foster Tom , Aarush Vailaya

We describe generating functions for several important families of classical symmetric functions and shifted Schur functions. The approach is originated from vertex operator realization of symmetric functions and offers a unified method to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Naihuan Jing , Natasha Rozhkovskaya

We investigate the problem of when a chromatic quasisymmetric function (CQF) $X_G(x;q)$ of a graph $G$ is in fact symmetric. We first prove the remarkable fact that if a product of two quasisymmetric functions $f$ and $g$ in countably…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Maria Gillespie , Joseph Pappe , Kyle Salois

We investigate the $e$-positivity and Schur positivity of the chromatic symmetric functions of some spider graphs with three legs. We obtain the positivity classification of all broom graphs and that of most double broom graphs. The methods…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-14 David G. L. Wang , Monica M. Y. Wang

Schur functions are a basis of the symmetric function ring that represent Schubert cohomology classes for Grassmannians. Replacing the cohomology ring with $K$-theory yields a rich combinatorial theory of inhomogeneous deformations, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Logan Crew , Oliver Pechenik , Sophie Spirkl

This paper describes how many known graph polynomials arise from the coefficients of chromatic symmetric function expansions in different bases, and studies a new polynomial arising by expanding over a basis given by chromatic symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-18 William Chan , Logan Crew

We give a proof of Stanley-Stembridge conjecture on chromatic symmetric functions for the class of all unit interval graphs with independence number 3. That is, we show that the chromatic symmetric function of the incomparability graph of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Soojin Cho , Jaehyun Hong

We study the chromatic symmetric function on graphs, and show that its kernel is spanned by the modular relations. We generalize this result to the chromatic quasisymmetric function on hypergraphic polytopes, a family of generalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Raul Penaguiao

We determine the precise conditions under which any skew Schur function is equal to a Schur function over both infinitely and finitely many variables.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-22 Stephanie van Willigenburg

In this paper we classify all Schur functions and skew Schur functions that are multiplicity free when expanded in the basis of fundamental quasisymmetric functions, termed F-multiplicity free. Combinatorially, this is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Christine Bessenrodt , Stephanie van Willigenburg