Positroid cluster structures from relabeled plabic graphs
Abstract
The Grassmannian is a disjoint union of open positroid varieties , certain smooth irreducible subvarieties whose definition is motivated by total positivity. The coordinate ring of is a cluster algebra, and each reduced plabic graph for determines a cluster. We study the effect of relabeling the boundary vertices of by a permutation . Under suitable hypotheses on the permutation, we show that the relabeled graph determines a cluster for a different open positroid variety . As a key step of the proof, we show that and are isomorphic by a nontrivial twist isomorphism. Our constructions yield many cluster structures on each open positroid variety , 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 , 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