English

Tensor diagrams and cluster combinatorics at punctures

Combinatorics 2022-11-11 v2

Abstract

Fock and Goncharov introduced a family of cluster algebras associated with the moduli of SL(k)-local systems on a marked surface with extra decorations at marked points. We study this family from an algebraic and combinatorial perspective, emphasizing the structures which arise when the surface has punctures. When k is 2, these structures are the tagged arcs and tagged triangulations of Fomin, Shapiro, and Thurston. For higher k, the tagging of arcs is replaced by a Weyl group action at punctures discovered by Goncharov and Shen. We pursue a higher analogue of a tagged triangulation in the language of tensor diagrams, extending work of Fomin and the second author, and we formulate skein-algebraic tools for calculating in these cluster algebras. We analyze the finite mutation type examples in detail.

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@article{arxiv.2107.13069,
  title  = {Tensor diagrams and cluster combinatorics at punctures},
  author = {Chris Fraser and Pavlo Pylyavskyy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.13069},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

64 pages, 11 figures, comments welcome; v2 incorporates referee feedback and corrects Lemma 3.7 and Proposition 5.6

R2 v1 2026-06-24T04:34:42.703Z