Aliniaeifard–van Willigenburg–Wang conjecture for a generalized family of spiders

For positive integers nn and mm, let S(a,b,c)S(a,b,c) denote the spider with three legs of lengths aa, bb, and cc. A spider is ee-positive when its chromatic symmetric function is a nonnegative linear combination of elementary symmetric functions.

Aliniaeifard–van Willigenburg–Wang conjecture. The family of spiders

S(n(n!m+1),n!m,1)S(n(n!m+1),n!m,1)

is ee-positive.

This is the second related conjecture communicated to the authors by Aliniaeifard, van Willigenburg, and Wang. The source gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Kai Zheng, “On the e-positivity of trees and spiders”, arXiv:2008.05038 (2022).

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