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Combinatorics of exceptional sequences in type A

Representation Theory 2016-11-15 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Exceptional sequences are certain ordered sequences of quiver representations. We introduce a class of objects called strand diagrams and use this model to classify exceptional sequences of representations of a quiver whose underlying graph is a type AnA_n Dynkin diagram. We also use variations of this model to classify c-matrices of such quivers, to interpret exceptional sequences as linear extensions of posets, and to give a simple bijection between exceptional sequences and certain chains in the lattice of noncrossing partitions. This work extends a classification of exceptional sequences for the linearly-ordered quiver obtained in an earlier paper by the first and third authors.

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@article{arxiv.1506.08927,
  title  = {Combinatorics of exceptional sequences in type A},
  author = {Alexander Garver and Kiyoshi Igusa and Jacob P. Matherne and Jonah Ostroff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08927},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

21 pages. Made changes throughout to improve the exposition, and made changes suggested by an anonymous referee. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.3365

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