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Classes of graphs with e-positive chromatic symmetric function
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- 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 examination of other, related graph classes. In 2013 Guay-Paquet proved that if unit interval graphs are e-positive, that implies claw-free incomparability graphs are as well. Inspired by this approach, we consider a related case and prove that unit interval graphs whose complement is also a unit interval graph are e-positive. We introduce the concept of strongly $e$-positive to denote a graph whose induced subgraphs are all e-positive, and conjecture that a graph is strongly e-positive if and only if it is (claw, net)-free.<br />Comment: 20 pages
- Subjects :
- Mathematics - Combinatorics
05E05, 05C15
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1808.03391
- Document Type :
- Working Paper