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The ${\rm SL}_n$-skein algebra of a punctured surface $\mathfrak{S}$, studied by Sikora, is an algebra generated by isotopy classes of $n$-webs living in the thickened surface $\mathfrak{S} \times (-1,1)$, where an $n$-web is a union of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Hyun Kyu Kim , Zhihao Wang

The Kauffman bracket skein algebra is a quantization of the algebra of regular functions on the $SL_2$ character variety of a topological surface. We realize the skein algebra of the $4$-punctured sphere as the output of a mirror symmetry…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Pierrick Bousseau

The $SU_3$-skein algebra of a surface $F$ is spanned by isotopy classes of certain framed graphs in $F\times I$ called $3$-webs subject to the skein relations encapsulating relations between $U_q(sl(3))$-representations. These skein…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Charles Frohman , Adam S. Sikora

Skein algebras of surfaces quantize character varieties of topological surfaces, and in low genus, these quantizations are often related to algebras arising in representation theory. For example, Terwilliger defined a universal $SL_2$…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Raymond Matson , Peter Samuelson

In this paper, we give matrix formulae for non-orientable surfaces that provide the Laurent expansion for quasi-cluster variables, generalizing the orientable surface matrix formulae by Musiker-Williams. We additionally use our matrix…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Cody Gilbert , McCleary Philbin , Kayla Wright

We construct frieze patterns of type D_N with entries which are numbers of matchings between vertices and triangles of corresponding triangulations of a punctured disc. For triangulations corresponding to orientations of the Dynkin diagram…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Karin Baur , Bethany Marsh

We prove the full Fock--Goncharov conjecture for $\mathcal{A}_{SL_2,\Sigma_{g,p}}$, the $\mathcal{A}$-cluster variety of the moduli of decorated twisted $SL_2$-local systems on triangulable surfaces $\Sigma_{g,p}$ with at least 2 punctures.…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Enhan Li

In this article, we realize skew-gentle algebras as skew-tiling algebras associated to admissible partial triangulations of punctured marked surfaces. Based on this, we establish a bijection between tagged permissible curves and certain…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Ping He , Yu Zhou , Bin Zhu

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,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Chris Fraser , Pavlo Pylyavskyy

In 2011 Musiker, Schiffler and Williams obtained expansion formulae for cluster algebras from orientable surfaces. For singly and doubly notched arcs these formulae required the notion of $\gamma$-symmetric perfect matchings and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jon Wilson

We use Bonahon-Wong's trace map to study character varieties of the once-punctured torus and of the 4-punctured sphere. We clarify a relationship with cluster algebra associated with ideal triangulations of surfaces, and we show that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Kazuhiro Hikami

We study filling sets of simple closed curves on punctured surfaces. In particular we study lower bounds on the cardinality of sets of curves that fill and that pairwise intersect at most k times on surfaces with given genus and number of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Federica Fanoni , Hugo Parlier

We study the algebraic and geometric properties of stated skein algebras of surfaces with punctured boundary. We prove that the skein algebra of the bigon is isomorphic to the quantum group ${\mathcal O}_{q^2}(\mathrm{SL}(2))$ providing a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Francesco Costantino , Thang T. Q. Le

In previous work of the second- and third-named authors with Linhui Shen, cluster theory was used to construct wavefunctions for branes in threespace and conjecturally relate them to open Gromov-Witten invariants. This was done by defining…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Mingyuan Hu , Gus Schrader , Eric Zaslow

We study relations between cluster algebra invariants and link invariants. First, we show that several constructions of positroid links (permutation links, Richardson links, grid diagram links, plabic graph links) give rise to isotopic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Pavel Galashin , Thomas Lam

We extend some results of Bonahon, Bullock, Turaev and Wong concerning the skein algebras of closed surfaces to L^e's stated skein algebra associated to open surfaces. We prove that the stated skein algebra with deforming parameter +1…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Julien Korinman , Alexandre Quesney

In \cite{HSZ23}, with Gus Schrader and Eric Zaslow we developed a skein-theoretic version of cluster theory, and made a conjecture on the pentagon relation for the skein dilogarithm. Here we give a topological proof of this conjecture.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Mingyuan Hu

Suppose $R$ is a commutative ring with identity and a fixed invertible element $q^{\frac{1}{2}}$ such that $q+q^{-1}$ is invertible. For an oriented surface $\Sigma$, let $\mathcal{S}(\Sigma;R)$ denote the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Haimiao Chen

The paper is motivated by an analogy between cluster algebras and Kac-Moody algebras: both theories share the same classification of finite type objects by familiar Cartan-Killing types. However the underlying combinatorics beyond the two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Michael Barot , Christof Geiss , Andrei Zelevinsky

The stated skein algebra of a punctured bordered surface (or equivalently, a marked surface) is a generalization of the well-known Kauffman bracket skein algebra of unmarked surfaces and can be considered as an extension of the quantum…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Thang T. Q. Lê , Tao Yu