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Khovanov introduced a bigraded cohomology theory of links whose graded Euler characteristic is the Jones polynomial. The theory was subsequently applied to the chromatic polynomial of graph, resulting in a categorification known as the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-01 So Yamagata

The chromatic polynomials are studied by several authors and have important applications in different frameworks, specially, in graph theory and enumerative combinatorics. The aim of this work is to establish some properties of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Mohammed Said Maamra , Miloud Mihoubi

We study semifinite harmonic functions on arbitrary branching graphs. We give a detailed exposition of an algebraic method which allows one to classify semifinite indecomposable harmonic functions on some multiplicative branching graphs.…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Nikita Safonkin

Skewing operators play a central role in the symmetric function theory because of the importance of the product structure of the symmetric function space. The theory of noncommutative symmetric functions is a useful tool for studying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Byung-Hak Hwang

Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a graph property. A $\mathcal{P}$-coloring with at most $k$ colors is a coloring of the vertices of a simple graph $G$ such that each color class induces a graph in $\mathcal{P}$. Harary polynomials are generalizations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Johann A. Makowsky

We state combinatorial formulas for hyperoctahedral group ($\mathfrak B_n$) character evaluations of the form $\chi( {{\widetilde C}_w}^{\negthickspace\negthickspace BC}\negthickspace(1))$, where ${{\widetilde…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Mark Skandera

In this article we describe a new inductive approach to compute the chromatic polynomial of simple graphs and the characteristic polynomial of central hyperplane arrangements.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Madison Cox , Michele Torielli

We give a complete list of indecomposable characters of the infinite symmetric semigroup. In comparison with the analogous list for the infinite symmetric group, one should introduce only one new parameter, which has a clear combinatorial…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-23 Anatoly Vershik , Pavel Nikitin

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

Various results ensure the existence of large complete bipartite graphs in properly colored graphs when some condition related to a topological lower bound on the chromatic number is satisfied. We generalize three theorems of this kind,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Meysam Alishahi , Hossein Hajiabolhassan , Frédéric Meunier

We use the combinatorial properties of central sets to prove a result about the existence of exponential monochromatic patterns, in the style of Hindman's Finite Sums Theorem. More precisely, we prove that for every finite coloring of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mauro Di Nasso , Mariaclara Ragosta

In 1995, Richard Stanley introduced the chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ of a graph $G$ and proved that, when written in terms of the elementary symmetric functions, it reveals the number of acyclic orientations of $G$ with a given number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Oscar Coppola , Jake Huryn , Michael Reilly

We consider the multivariate generating series $F_P$ of $P$-partitions in infinitely many variables $x_1, x_2 , \dots$. For some family of ranked posets $P$, it is natural to consider an analog $N_P$ with two infinite alphabets. When we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Jean-Christophe Aval , Valentin Féray , Jean-Christophe Novelli , Jean-Yves Thibon

We construct a generalization of the theory of symmetric functions involving functions of commuting and anticommuting (Grassmannian) variables. These new functions, called symmetric functions in superspace, are invariant under the diagonal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. Desrosiers , L. Lapointe , P. Mathieu

We have observations concerning the set theoretic strength of the following combinatorial statements without the axiom of choice. 1. If in a partially ordered set, all chains are finite and all antichains are countable, then the set is…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Amitayu Banerjee , Zalán Gyenis

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring that was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. The chromatic polynomial of a graph is an important notion in algebraic combinatorics that was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Gabriel Sharbel

For any graph $G$, the chromatic polynomial of $G$ is the function $P(G,m)$ which counts the number of proper $m$-colorings of $G$ for each positive integer $m$. The DP color function $P_{DP}(G,m)$ of $G$, introduced by Kaul and Mudrock in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Fengming Dong , Yan Yang

This paper investigates methods for calculating the chromatic symmetric function (CSF) of a graph in chromatic-bases and the $m_\lambda$-basis. Our key contributions include a novel approach for calculating the CSF in chromatic-bases…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Nima Amoei Mobaraki , Yasaman Gerivani , Sina Ghasemi Nezhad

We present an explicit family of hypergraphs with arbitrarily large uniformity and chromatic number that admit realizations in both geometric and number-theoretic settings. As an application, we give a new proof of a theorem of Chen, Pach,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Gábor Damásdi

Motivated by Dohmen-P\"onitz-Tittmann's bivariate chromatic polynomial $\chi_G(x,y)$, which counts all $x$-colorings of a graph $G$ such that adjacent vertices get different colors if they are $\le y$, we introduce a bivarate version of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Matthias Beck , Maryam Farahmand , Gina Karunaratne , Sandra Zuniga Ruiz