Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 78B.74 (2017), 12 pp.
Brittney Ellzey
Chromatic Quasisymmetric Functions of Directed Graphs
Abstract.
Chromatic quasisymmetric functions of labeled graphs were defined by
Shareshian and Wachs as a refinement of Stanley's chromatic symmetric
functions. In this extended abstract, we consider an extension of
their definition from labeled graphs to directed graphs, suggested by
Richard Stanley. We obtain an F-basis expansion of the chromatic
quasisymmetric functions of all digraphs and a p-basis expansion for
all symmetric chromatic quasisymmetric functions of digraphs,
extending work of Shareshian-Wachs and Athanasiadis. We show that the
chromatic quasisymmetric functions of proper circular arc digraphs are
symmetric functions, which generalizes a result of Shareshian and
Wachs on natural unit interval graphs. The directed cycle on n
vertices is contained in the class of proper circular arc digraphs,
and we give a generating function for the e-basis expansion of the
chromatic quasisymmetric function of the directed cycle, refining a
result of Stanley for the undirected cycle. We present a
generalization of the Shareshian-Wachs refinement of the
Stanley-Stembridge e-positivity conjecture.
Received: November 14, 2016.
Accepted: February 17, 2017.
Final version: April 1, 2017.
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