Colored Trees and Noncommutative Symmetric Functions

Let CRF S denote the category of S-colored rooted forests, and HCRFS denote its Ringel-Hall algebra as introduced in [6]. We construct a homomorphism from a K+ 0 (CRF S)–graded version of the Hopf algebra of noncommutative symmetric functions to HCRFS . Dualizing, we obtain a homomorphism from the Connes-Kreimer Hopf algebra to a K+ 0 (CRF S)–graded version of the algebra of quasisymmetric functions. This homomorphism is a refinement of one considered by W. Zhao in [9].