An analogue of chromatic bases and p-positivity of skew Schur Q-functions

We investigate chromatic symmetric functions in relation to the algebra Γ\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\varGamma $$\end{document} of symmetric functions generated by Schur Q-functions. We construct natural bases of Γ\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\varGamma $$\end{document} in terms of chromatic symmetric functions. We also consider the p-positivity of skew Schur Q-functions and find a class of p-positive ribbon Schur Q-functions, making a conjecture that they are only p-positive Schur Q-functions. We include many concrete computational results that support our conjecture.