Shareshian–Wachs Hessenberg variety representation conjecture
Let be a Hessenberg vector, and let be the natural unit interval order on defined by if . Let be the associated Hessenberg variety, let be the chromatic quasisymmetric function of its incomparability graph, let be the involution on symmetric functions, and let denote the Frobenius characteristic. Shareshian and Wachs's conjecture. For all Hessenberg vectors ,
This connects chromatic quasisymmetric functions with the symmetric-group representations on the cohomology of Hessenberg varieties. The source notes that the conjecture holds for , while the general case remains open, including questions about faithful symmetric-group actions.
References
Primary source
John Shareshian and Michelle L. Wachs, “From Poset Topology to q-Eulerian Polynomials to Stanley's Chromatic Symmetric Functions”, arXiv:1505.03530 (2015).
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