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The chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ of a graph $G$ was introduced by Stanley. In this paper we introduce a quasisymmetric generalization $X^k_G$ called the $k$-chromatic quasisymmetric function of $G$ and show that it is positive in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-05 Brandon Humpert

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

We find a positive $e_I$-expansion for the chromatic symmetric function of KPKP graphs, which are graphs obtained by connecting a vertex in a complete graph with a vertex in the maximal clique of a lollipop graph by a path. This generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Davion Q. B. Tang , David G. L. Wang

The chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ is a sum of monomials corresponding to proper vertex colorings of a graph $G$. Crew, Pechenik, and Spirkl (2023) recently introduced a $K$-theoretic analogue $\overline{X}_G$ called the Kromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Laura Pierson

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

Chromatic derivatives and series expansions of bandlimited functions have recently been introduced in signal processing and they have been shown to be useful in practical applications. We extend the notion of chromatic derivative using…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Á. P. Horváth

For a graph $G$, its Tutte symmetric function $XB_G$ generalizes both the Tutte polynomial $T_G$ and the chromatic symmetric function $X_G$. We may also consider $XB$ as a map from the $t$-extended Hopf algebra $\mathbb{G}[t]$ of labelled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Logan Crew , Sophie Spirkl

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

We introduce two classes of graphs - suns and dumbbells, both with few variations and explore their chromatic symmetric function and its $e$-positivity. We also give many connections of these two classes with other classes of connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Stefan Mitrovic , Tanja Stojadinovic

In arXiv:2301.02177, Crew, Pechenik, and Spirkl defined the Kromatic symmetric function $\overline{X}_G$ as a $K$-analogue of Stanley's chromatic symmetric function $X_G$, and one question they asked was how $\overline{X}_G$ expands in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Laura Pierson

Stanley associated with a graph G a symmetric function X_G which reduces to G's chromatic polynomial under a certain specialization of variables. He then proved various theorems generalizing results about the chromatic polynomial, as well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David D. Gebhard , Bruce E. Sagan

We expand the chromatic symmetric functions for Dyck paths of bounce number three in the elementary symmetric function basis using a combinatorial interpretation of the inverse of the Kostka matrix studied in E\u{g}ecio\u{g}lu-Remmel…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Shiyun Wang

The purpose of this note is to introduce a new family of quasi-symmetric functions called LLT cumulants and discuss its properties. We define LLT cumulants using the algebraic framework for conditional cumulants and we prove that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Maciej Dołęga , Maciej Kowalski

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 provide a formula for every Schur coefficient in the chromatic symmetric function of a graph in terms of special rim hook tabloids. This formula is useful in confirming the non-Schur positivity of the chromatic symmetric function of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-17 David G. L. Wang , Monica M. Y. Wang

By using level one polynomial representations of affine Hecke algebras of type $A$, we obtain a $(q,t)$-analogue of the chromatic symmetric functions of unit interval graphs which generalizes Syu Kato's formula for the chromatic symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Tatsuyuki Hikita

We construct examples of nonnegative harmonic functions on certain graded graphs: the Young lattice and its generalizations. Such functions first emerged in harmonic analysis on the infinite symmetric group. Our method relies on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Alexei Borodin , Grigori Olshanski

FPSAC 2013 Extended Abstract. We introduce a new basis of the non-commutative symmetric functions whose elements have Schur functions as their commutative images. Dually, we build a basis of the quasi-symmetric functions which expand…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Chris Berg , Nantel Bergeron , Franco Saliola , Luis Serrano , Mike Zabrocki

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 the vector space of symmetric functions, the elements of the basis of elementary symmetric functions are (up to a factor) the chromatic symmetric functions of disjoint unions of cliques. We consider their graph complements, the functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Logan Crew , Sophie Spirkl