Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-25-2025
Publisher
Springer Nature
Abstract
We show that the chromatic quasisymmetric function (CQF) of a labeled path graph on n vertices is not symmetric unless the labeling is the natural labeling or its reverse. We also show that the star graph with has a nonsymmetric CQF for all labelings.
Recommended Citation
Aliniaeifard, F., Asgarli, S., Esipova, M., Shelburne, E., van Willigenburg, S., & Whitehead McGinley, T. (2025). Chromatic Quasisymmetric Functions of the Path Graph. Annals of Combinatorics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-025-00762-1

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