Chromatic quasisymmetric functions of directed graphs

Brittney Ellzey

Published 2016-12-14Version 1

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 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. We present 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.