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Resolving Stanley's e-Positivity of Claw-Contractible-Free Graphs Dahlberg, Samantha

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In Stanley's seminal 1995 paper on the chromatic symmetric function, he stated that there was no known graph that was not contractible to the claw and whose chromatic symmetric function was not e-positive, namely, not a positive linear combination of elementary symmetric functions. We resolve this by giving infinite families of graphs that are not contractible to the claw and whose chromatic symmetric functions are not e-positive. Moreover, one such family is additionally claw-free, thus establishing that the e-positivity of chromatic symmetric functions in general is not dependent on the claw.

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