English

Positroid cluster structures from relabeled plabic graphs

Combinatorics 2022-01-07 v3 Algebraic Geometry Rings and Algebras

Abstract

The Grassmannian is a disjoint union of open positroid varieties PvP_v, certain smooth irreducible subvarieties whose definition is motivated by total positivity. The coordinate ring of PvP_v is a cluster algebra, and each reduced plabic graph GG for PvP_v determines a cluster. We study the effect of relabeling the boundary vertices of GG by a permutation rr. Under suitable hypotheses on the permutation, we show that the relabeled graph GrG^r determines a cluster for a different open positroid variety PwP_w. As a key step of the proof, we show that PvP_v and PwP_w are isomorphic by a nontrivial twist isomorphism. Our constructions yield many cluster structures on each open positroid variety PwP_w, given by plabic graphs with appropriately relabeled boundary. We conjecture that the seeds in all of these cluster structures are related by a combination of mutations and Laurent monomial transformations involving frozen variables, and establish this conjecture for (open) Schubert and opposite Schubert varieties. As an application, we also show that for certain reduced plabic graphs GG, the "source" cluster and the "target" cluster are related by mutation and Laurent monomial rescalings.

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@article{arxiv.2006.10247,
  title  = {Positroid cluster structures from relabeled plabic graphs},
  author = {Chris Fraser and Melissa Sherman-Bennett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.10247},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

50 pages. v2: minor changes. v3: exposition and proofs improved following referee feedback

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