A two parameter chromatic symmetric function.
A latin trade is a subset of a latin square which may be replaced with a disjoint mate to obtain a new latin square. A -homogeneous latin trade is one which intersects each row, each column and each entry of the latin square either or times. In this paper, we show that a construction given by Cavenagh, Donovan and Drápal for -homogeneous latin trades in fact classifies every minimal -homogeneous latin trade. We in turn classify all -homogeneous latin trades. A corollary is that any -homogeneous...
Recently Prodinger [8] considered the reciprocal super Catalan matrix and gave explicit formulæ for its LU-decomposition, the LU-decomposition of its inverse, and obtained some related matrices. For all results, q-analogues were also presented. In this paper, we define and study a variant of the reciprocal super Catalan matrix with two additional parameters. Explicit formulæ for its LU-decomposition, LUdecomposition of its inverse and the Cholesky decomposition are obtained. For all results, q-analogues...
Motivated by the work of Chmutov, Duzhin and Lando on Vassiliev invariants, we define a polynomial on weighted graphs which contains as specialisations the weighted chromatic invariants but also contains many other classical invariants including the Tutte and matching polynomials. It also gives the symmetric function generalisation of the chromatic polynomial introduced by Stanley. We study its complexity and prove hardness results for very restricted classes of graphs.