Cluster algebras of finite type and positive symmetrizable matrices
Abstract
The paper is motivated by an analogy between cluster algebras and Kac-Moody algebras: both theories share the same classification of finite type objects by familiar Cartan-Killing types. However the underlying combinatorics beyond the two classifications is different: roughly speaking, Kac-Moody algebras are associated with (symmetrizable) Cartan matrices, while cluster algebras correspond to skew-symmetrizable matrices. We study an interplay between the two classes of matrices, in particular, establishing a new criterion for deciding whether a given skew-symmetrizable matrix gives rise to a cluster algebra of finite type.
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@article{arxiv.math/0411341,
title = {Cluster algebras of finite type and positive symmetrizable matrices},
author = {Michael Barot and Christof Geiss and Andrei Zelevinsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0411341},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
20 pages. In version 3, some new material is added in the end of section 2, discussing the classification and characterizations of positive quasi-Cartan matrices. In final version 4, Proposition 2.9 is corrected and its proof expanded. To appear in J. London Math. Soc. In version 5 only typos in the arXiv data fixed