Arunkumar Ganesan , Narayanan Narayanan , B. V. Raghavendra Rao , Sagar S. Sawant
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Abstract
Stanley's Tree Isomorphism Conjecture posits that the chromatic symmetric function can distinguish non-isomorphic trees. This conjecture is already established for caterpillars and other subclasses of trees. We prove the conjecture's validity for a new class of trees that generalize proper caterpillars, thus confirming the conjecture for a broader class of trees.
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