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Tropical symmetries of cluster algebras

Representation Theory 2026-03-17 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study tropicalisations of quasi-automorphisms of cluster algebras and show that their induced action on the g-vectors can be realized by tropicalising their action on the homogeneous y^\hat{y} (or X\mathcal{X}) variables of a chosen initial cluster. This perspective allows us to interpret the action on g-vectors as a change of coordinates in the tropical setting. Focusing on Grassmannian cluster algebras, we analyse tropicalisations of quasi-automorphisms in detail. We derive tropical analogues of the braid group action and the twist map on both g-vectors and tableaux. We introduce the notions of unstable and stable fixed points for quasi-automorphisms, which prove useful for constructing cluster monomials and non-real modules, respectively. As an application, we demonstrate that the counts of prime non-real tableaux with a fixed number of columns in SSYT(3,[9])\mathrm{SSYT}(3, [9]) and SSYT(4,[8])\mathrm{SSYT}(4, [8]), arising from the braid group action on stable fixed points, are governed by Euler's totient function. Furthermore, we apply our findings to scattering amplitudes in physics, providing a novel interpretation of the square root associated with the four-mass box integral via stable fixed points of quasi-automorphisms of the Grassmannian cluster algebra \CC[\Gr(4,8)]\CC[\Gr(4,8)].

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@article{arxiv.2601.19779,
  title  = {Tropical symmetries of cluster algebras},
  author = {James Drummond and Ömer Gürdoğan and Jian-Rong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.19779},
  year   = {2026}
}

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57 pages