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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

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

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

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

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 discuss three distinct topics of independent interest; one in enumerative combinatorics, one in symmetric function theory, and one in algebraic geometry. The topic in enumerative combinatorics concerns a q-analog of a generalization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-09 John Shareshian , Michelle L. Wachs

Given a central integral arrangement, the reduction of the arrangement modulo positive integers $q$ gives rise to a subgroup arrangement in $(\mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z})^\ell$. Kamiya-Takemura-Terao (2008) introduced the notion of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Tan Nhat Tran

We define a new type of vertex coloring which generalizes vertex coloring in graphs, hypergraphs, and simplicial complexes. This coloring also generalizes oriented coloring, acyclic coloring, and star coloring. There is an associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-22 John Machacek

We consider a linear relation which expresses Stanley's chromatic symmetric function for a poset in terms of the chromatic symmetric functions of some closely related posets, which we call the modular law. By applying this in the context of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Mathieu Guay-Paquet

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 study of Macdonald polynomials, J. Haglund and A. Wilson introduced a nonsymmetric polynomial analogue of the chromatic quasisymmetric function called the \emph{chromatic nonsymmetric polynomial} of a Dyck graph. We give a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Vasu Tewari , Andrew Timothy Wilson , Philip B. Zhang

Let $P(G,q)$ be the chromatic polynomial for coloring the $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $q$ colors, and define $W=\lim_{n \to \infty}P(G,q)^{1/n}$. Besides their mathematical interest, these functions are important in statistical physics. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Shrock

We introduce a quasisymmetric class function associated with a group acting on a double poset or on a directed graph. The latter is a generalization of the chromatic quasisymmetric function of a digraph introduced by Ellzey, while the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Jacob A White

Motivated by Stanley's generalization of the chromatic polynomial of a graph to the chromatic symmetric function, we introduce the characteristic polynomial of a representation of the symmetric group, or more generally, of a symmetric…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Jinwon Choi , Young-Hoon Kiem , Donggun Lee

We introduce path-conjoined graphs defined for two rooted graphs by joining their roots with a path, and investigate the chromatic symmetric functions of its two generalizations: spider-conjoined graphs and chain-conjoined graphs. By using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 E. Y. J. Qi , D. Q. B. Tang , D. G. L. Wang

We introduce the characteristic numbers and the chromatic polynomial of a tensor. Our approach generalizes and unifies the chromatic polynomial of a graph and of a matroid, characteristic numbers of quadrics in Schubert calculus, Betti…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Austin Conner , Mateusz Michałek

In the present paper, we introduce the concept of universal graph series. We then present four invariants of graphs and discuss some of their properties. In particular, one of these invariants is a generalization of the chromatic symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Akihiro Munemasa , Yusaku Nishimura , Tadashi Sakuma , Shuhei Tsujie

In this note we obtain numerous new bases for the algebra of symmetric functions whose generators are chromatic symmetric functions. More precisely, if $\{ G_ k \}_{k\geq 1}$ is a set of connected graphs such that $G_k$ has $k$ vertices for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Soojin Cho , Stephanie van Willigenburg

We prove a general inclusion-exclusion relation for the extended chromatic symmetric function of a weighted graph, which specializes to (extended) $k$-deletion, and we give two methods to obtain numerous new bases from weighted graphs for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Farid Aliniaeifard , Victor Wang , Stephanie van Willigenburg

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