Set-weighted chromatic symmetric function coefficient-sum conjecture
Set-weighted chromatic symmetric function coefficient-sum conjecture
Let be a set-weighted graph with vertices and total weight , and write
Let be an integer, viewed as a one-part partition, that is -allowable in , and fix , with permitted only when . For an acyclic orientation and a generalized -step weight map , let and denote the associated statistics, and let be the sign defined from the first nonempty step of each relevant stable set. Set-weighted coefficient-sum conjecture.
summed over all acyclic orientations of and all -admissible generalized -step weight maps of such that . The conjecture gives a combinatorial interpretation of a broad family of sums of -basis coefficients of vertex-weighted chromatic symmetric functions. It extends a known follow-up result of Stanley; in particular, the abstract states that it would give an interpretation for sums with prescribed values of and for every unweighted claw-free graph. The source supplies no resolution.
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Primary source
Logan Crew and Yongxing Zhang, “e-basis Coefficients of Chromatic Symmetric Functions”, arXiv:2210.03803 (2025).
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