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Tropical Fock-Goncharov coordinates for $\mathrm{SL}_3$-webs on surfaces II: naturality

Geometric Topology 2025-04-14 v3 Combinatorics Quantum Algebra Representation Theory

Abstract

In a companion paper (arXiv 2011.01768), we constructed nonnegative integer coordinates ΦT(W3,S^)Z0N\Phi_\mathscr{T}(\mathscr{W}_{3, \hat{S}}) \subset \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}^N for the collection W3,S^\mathscr{W}_{3, \hat{S}} of reduced SL3\mathrm{SL}_3-webs on a finite-type punctured surface S^\hat{S}, depending on an ideal triangulation T\mathscr{T} of S^\hat{S}. We show that these coordinates are natural with respect to the choice of triangulation, in the sense that if a different triangulation T\mathscr{T}^\prime is chosen, then the coordinate change map relating ΦT(W3,S^)\Phi_\mathscr{T}(\mathscr{W}_{3, \hat{S}}) to ΦT(W3,S^)\Phi_{\mathscr{T}^\prime}(\mathscr{W}_{3, \hat{S}}) is a tropical A\mathcal{A}-coordinate cluster transformation. We can therefore view the webs W3,S^\mathscr{W}_{3, \hat{S}} as a concrete topological model for the Fock-Goncharov-Shen positive integer tropical points APGL3,S^+(Zt)\mathcal{A}_{\mathrm{PGL}_3, \hat{S}}^+(\mathbb{Z}^t).

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@article{arxiv.2012.14202,
  title  = {Tropical Fock-Goncharov coordinates for $\mathrm{SL}_3$-webs on surfaces II: naturality},
  author = {Daniel C. Douglas and Zhe Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14202},
  year   = {2025}
}

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69 pages, 28 figures. Version 3: Final version after publication