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${\rm SL}_3$-laminations as bases for ${\rm PGL}_3$ cluster varieties for surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2022-09-05 v4 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

In this paper we partially settle Fock-Goncharov's duality conjecture for cluster varieties associated to their moduli spaces of G{\rm G}-local systems on a punctured surface S\frak{S} with boundary data, when G{\rm G} is a group of type A2A_2, namely SL3{\rm SL}_3 and PGL3{\rm PGL}_3. Based on Kuperberg's SL3{\rm SL}_3-webs, we introduce the notion of SL3{\rm SL}_3-laminations on S\frak{S} defined as certain SL3{\rm SL}_3-webs with integer weights. We introduce coordinate systems for SL3{\rm SL}_3-laminations, and show that SL3{\rm SL}_3-laminations satisfying a congruence property are geometric realizations of the tropical integer points of the cluster A\mathscr{A}-moduli space ASL3,S\mathscr{A}_{{\rm SL}_3,\frak{S}}. Per each such SL3{\rm SL}_3-lamination, we construct a regular function on the cluster X\mathscr{X}-moduli space XPGL3,S\mathscr{X}_{{\rm PGL}_3,\frak{S}}. We show that these functions form a basis of the ring of all regular functions. For a proof, we develop SL3{\rm SL}_3 quantum and classical trace maps for any triangulated bordered surface with marked points, and state-sum formulas for them. We construct quantum versions of the basic regular functions on XPGL3,S\mathscr{X}_{{\rm PGL}_3,\frak{S}}. The bases constructed in this paper are built from non-elliptic webs, hence could be viewed as higher `bangles' bases, and the corresponding `bracelets' versions can also be considered as direct analogs of Fock-Goncharov's and Allegretti-Kim's bases for the SL2{\rm SL}_2-PGL2{\rm PGL}_2 case.

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@article{arxiv.2011.14765,
  title  = {${\rm SL}_3$-laminations as bases for ${\rm PGL}_3$ cluster varieties for surfaces},
  author = {Hyun Kyu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.14765},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

ver2: A major change is that the quantization is added. Some terminology changed, hence the title changed / ver3: Relatively minor corrections, and bibliography update / ver4: Some errors corrected, gaps filled, subsection 5.7 added, conjectural section 6 cut down, referee's feedbacks applied. To appear in Memoirs of the AMS

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