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arXiv · 2411.13411

On Calculating the Chromatic Symmetric Function

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This paper investigates methods for calculating the chromatic symmetric function (CSF) of a graph in chromatic-bases and the $m_λ$-basis. Our key contributions include a novel approach for calculating the CSF in chromatic-bases constructed from forests and an efficient method for determining the CSF in the $m_λ$-basis. As applications, we present combinatorial proofs for two known theorems that were originally established using algebraic techniques. Additionally, we demonstrate that an algorithm introduced by Aliste-Prieto, de Mier, Orellana, and Zamora can be viewed as a case of our proposed method.

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Nima Amoei Mobaraki, Yasaman Gerivani, Sina Ghasemi Nezhad. 2025-02-23. On Calculating the Chromatic Symmetric Function. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13411

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