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In this article we show how to compute the chromatic quasisymmetric function of indifference graphs from the modular law introduced by Guay-Paquet. We provide an algorithm which works for any function that satisfies this law, such as…

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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

An edge-colored graph $G$ is called properly colored if every two adjacent edges are assigned different colors. A monochromatic triangle is a cycle of length 3 with all the edges having the same color. Given a tree $T_0$, let…

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Functional connectivity (FC) has been widely used to study brain network interactions underlying the emerging cognition and behavior of an individual. FC is usually defined as the correlation or partial correlation between brain regions.…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-27 Gemeng Zhang , Aiying Zhang , Biao Cai , Zhuozhuo Tu , Vince D. Calhoun , Yu-Ping Wang

In this paper, we present examples of the cyclic sieving phenomenon coming from studying independent sets in graphs of a fixed size k. Given a graph G, and a cyclic group C acting on the graph, then C also acts on the collection of…

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Let ${\rm dim}(G)$ and $D(G)$ respectively denote the metric dimension and the distinguishing number of a graph $G$. It is proved that $D(G) \le {\rm dim}(G)+1$ holds for every connected graph $G$. Among trees, exactly paths and stars…

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As introduced by Gutman and Harary, the independence polynomial of a graph serves as the generating polynomial of its independent sets. In 1987, Alavi, Malde, Schwenk and Erd\H{o}s conjectured that the independence polynomials of all trees…

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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

Chromatic polynomials have been studied extensively, giving us results such as the Fundamental Reduction Theorem and closed formulas for the chromatic polynomials of common classes of graphs. Though, none of those extend to the context of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Pedro M. Recuero

Node features bolster graph-based learning when exploited jointly with network structure. However, a lack of nodal attributes is prevalent in graph data. We present a framework to recover completely missing node features for a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Victor M. Tenorio , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

In this paper we continue the systematic study of Contact graphs of Paths on a Grid (CPG graphs) initiated in [Deniz et al., 2018]. A CPG graph is a graph for which there exists a collection of pairwise interiorly disjoint paths on a grid…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Nicolas Champseix , Esther Galby , Andrea Munaro , Bernard Ries

Let $G$ be a graph of order $n$ and let $\mathcal{L}(G,\lambda)=\sum_{k=0}^n (-1)^{k}c_{k}(G)\lambda^{n-k}$ be the characteristic polynomial of its Laplacian matrix. Motivated by Ili\'{c} and Ili\'{c}'s conjecture [A. Ili\'{c}, M. Ili\'{c},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Jie Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Given a connected graph $R$ on $r$ vertices and a rooted graph $H,$ let $R\{H\}$ be the graph obtained from $r$ copies of $H$ and the graph $R$ by identifying the root of the $i-th$ copy of $H$ with the $i-th$ vertex of $R$. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Oscar Rojo

In the mid-1990s, Stanley and Stembridge conjectured that the chromatic symmetric functions of claw-free co-comparability (also called incomparability) graphs were e-positive. The quest for the proof of this conjecture has led to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Angèle M. Foley , Chính T. Hoàng , Owen D. Merkel

Large-scale graphs are widely used to represent object relationships in many real world applications. The occurrence of large-scale graphs presents significant computational challenges to process, analyze, and extract information. Graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Yu Jin , Andreas Loukas , Joseph F. JaJa

Directed graphs have long been used to gain understanding of the structure of semigroups, and recently the structure of directed graph semigroups has been investigated resulting in a characterization theorem and an analog of Fruct's…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Tien Chih , Demitri Plessas

A common problem in graph colouring seeks to decompose the edge set of a given graph into few similar and simple subgraphs, under certain divisibility conditions. In 1987 Wormald conjectured that the edges of every cubic graph on $4n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Gal Kronenberg , Shoham Letzter , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Liana Yepremyan

A directed graph $D$ is singly connected if for every ordered pair of vertices $(s,t)$, there is at most one path from $s$ to $t$ in $D$. Graph orientation problems ask, given an undirected graph $G$, to find an orientation of the edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Tim A. Hartmann , Komal Muluk

Symmetry is a key feature observed in nature (from flowers and leaves, to butterflies and birds) and in human-made objects (from paintings and sculptures, to manufactured objects and architectural design). Rotational, translational, and…

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