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The chromatic symmetric function $X_H$ of a hypergraph $H$ is the generating function for all colorings of $H$ so that no edge is monochromatic. When $H$ is an ordinary graph, it is known that $X_H$ is positive in the fundamental…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Jair Taylor

The U-polynomial, the polychromate and the symmetric function generalization of the Tutte polynomial due to Stanley are known to be equivalent in the sense that the coefficients of any one of them can be obtained as a function of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-02 Criel Merino , Steven D. Noble

Chromatic symmetric functions are well-studied symmetric functions in algebraic combinatorics that generalize the chromatic polynomial and are related to Hessenberg varieties and diagonal harmonics. Motivated by the Stanley--Stembridge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Jacob P. Matherne , Alejandro H. Morales , Jesse Selover

We discover new linear relations between the chromatic symmetric functions of certain sequences of graphs and apply these relations to find new families of e-positive unit interval graphs. Motivated by the results of Gebhard and Sagan, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Farid Aliniaeifard , Victor Wang , Stephanie van Willigenburg

In 1995, Stanley introduced the well-known chromatic symmetric function $X_{G}(x_{1},x_{2},\ldots)$ of a graph $G$. It is a sum of monomial symmetric functions such that for each vertex coloring of $G$ there is exactly one of these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Melanie Gerling

Let $T$ be an unrooted tree. The \emph{chromatic symmetric function} $X_T$, introduced by Stanley, is a sum of monomial symmetric functions corresponding to proper colorings of $T$. The \emph{subtree polynomial} $S_T$, first considered…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Jeremy L. Martin , Matthew Morin , Jennifer D. Wagner

A gain graph is a graph whose edges are orientably labelled from a group. A weighted gain graph is a gain graph with vertex weights from an abelian semigroup, where the gain group is lattice ordered and acts on the weight semigroup. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-18 David Forge , Thomas Zaslavsky

If we consider previously introduced extensions of Stanley's chromatic symmetric function $X_{G}(x_1, x_2, \ldots)$ for a graph $G$ to elements in the algebra $\textsf{QSym}$ of quasisymmetric functions and in the algebra $\textsf{NCSym}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 John M. Campbell

We exhibit non-switching-isomorphic signed graphs that share a common underlying graph and common chromatic polynomials, thereby answering a question posed by Zaslavsky. For various joins of all-positive or all-negative signed complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Gary R. W. Greaves , Jeven Syatriadi , Charissa I. Utomo

There is a natural way to assign both graph and digraph to every poset. Furthermore, any graph has its chromatic function, while any digraph has its Redei-Berge function. On the level of posets, these two functions are almost identical.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Stefan Mitrović , Tanja Stojadinović

Stanley asked whether a tree is determined up to isomorphism by its chromatic symmetric function. We approach Stanley's problem by studying the relationship between the chromatic symmetric function and other invariants. First, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-24 José Aliste-Prieto , Jeremy L. Martin , Jennifer D. Wagner , José Zamora

Motivated by the question of which structural properties of a graph can be recovered from the chromatic symmetric function (CSF), we study the CSF of connected unicyclic graphs. While it is known that there can be non-isomorphic unicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Aram Bingham , Lisa Johnston , Colin Lawson , Rosa Orellana , Jianping Pan , Chelsea Sato

A common generalization for the chromatic polynomial and the flow polynomial of a graph $G$ is the Tutte polynomial $T(G;x,y)$. The combinatorial meaning for the coefficients of $T$ was discovered by Tutte at the beginning of its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-16 Beifang Chen

We give a new characterization of the Tutte polynomial of graphs. Our characterization is formally close (but inequivalent) to the original definition given by Tutte as the generating function of spanning trees counted according to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Olivier Bernardi

Shareshian-Wachs, Brosnan-Chow, and Guay-Pacquet [Adv. Math. ${\bf 295}$ (2016), ${\bf 329}$ (2018), arXiv:1601.05498] realized the chromatic (quasi-)symmetric function of a unit interval graph in terms of Hessenberg varieties. Here we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Syu Kato

We provide a matrix-based formula for the Tutte symmetric function of a graph. In particular, for any graph $G$ with a designated head and tail vertex, we describe an infinite matrix $M_G$ from which the Tutte symmetric function can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Foster Tom , Aarush Vailaya

We study methods to manipulate weights in stress-graph embeddings to improve convex straight-line planar drawings of 3-connected planar graphs. Stress-graph embeddings are weighted versions of Tutte embeddings, where solving a linear system…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Alvin Chiu , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

We explore the interplay between algebraic combinatorics and algorithmic problems in graph theory by defining a polynomial with connections to correspondence colouring (also known as DP-colouring), a recent generalization of list-colouring,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Chris Godsil , Krystal Guo , Gordon Royle

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

In this paper, we investigate the strength of chromatic symmetric homology as a graph invariant. Chromatic symmetric homology is a lift of the chromatic symmetric function for graphs to a homological setting, and its Frobenius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Alex Chandler , Radmila Sazdanovic , Salvatore Stella , Martha Yip