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Cluster algebras arising from cluster tubes

Representation Theory 2017-05-17 v2 Combinatorics Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We study the cluster algebras arising from cluster tubes with rank bigger than 11. Cluster tubes are 22-Calabi-Yau triangulated categories which contain no cluster tilting objects, but maximal rigid objects. Fix a certain maximal rigid object TT in the cluster tube Cn\mathcal{C}_n of rank nn. For any indecomposable rigid object MM in Cn\mathcal{C}_n, we define an analogous XMX_M of Caldero-Chapton's formula (or Palu's cluster character formula) by using the geometric information of MM. We show that XM,XMX_M, X_{M'} satisfy the mutation formula when M,MM,M' form an exchange pair, and that X?:MXMX_{?}: M\mapsto X_M gives a bijection from the set of indecomposable rigid objects in Cn\mathcal{C}_n to the set of cluster variables of cluster algebra of type Cn1C_{n-1}, which induces a bijection between the set of basic maximal rigid objects in Cn\mathcal{C}_n and the set of clusters. This strengths a surprising result proved recently by Buan-Marsh-Vatne that the combinatorics of maximal rigid objects in the cluster tube Cn\mathcal{C}_n encode the combinatorics of the cluster algebra of type Bn1B_{n-1} since the combinatorics of cluster algebras of type Bn1B_{n-1} or of type Cn1C_{n-1} are the same by a result of Fomin and Zelevinsky. As a consequence, we give a categorification of cluster algebras of type CC.

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@article{arxiv.1008.3444,
  title  = {Cluster algebras arising from cluster tubes},
  author = {Yu Zhou and Bin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3444},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages, title changed, rewrite the proof of the main theorem in Section 3, add Section 5, final version to appear in Jour. London Math. Soc

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