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Stack-Sorting with Consecutive-Pattern-Avoiding Stacks
Colin Defant, Kai Zheng
We introduce consecutive-pattern-avoiding stack-sorting maps , which are natural generalizations of West's stack-sorting map and natural analogues of the classical…
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On the -positivity of trees and spiders
Kai Zheng
We prove that for any tree with a vertex of degree at least six, its chromatic symmetric function is not -positive, that is, it cannot be written as a nonnegative linear combina…
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Unitary Signings and Induced Subgraphs of Cayley Graphs of
Noga Alon, Kai Zheng
Let be a Cayley graph of the elementary abelian -group with respect to a set of size . We prove that for any such and , the maximum degre…