2 papers
math.CO2019
Chromatic Posets
Samantha Dahlberg, Adrian She, Stephanie van Willigenburg
In 1995 Stanley introduced the chromatic symmetric function of a graph , whose -positivity and Schur-positivity has been of large interest. In this paper we study the r…
math.CO2019
Schur and -positivity of trees and cut vertices
Samantha Dahlberg, Adrian She, Stephanie van Willigenburg
We prove that the chromatic symmetric function of any -vertex tree containing a vertex of degree is not -positive, that is, not a positive linear combinat…