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Long mutation cycles

Combinatorics 2025-07-18 v2

Abstract

A mutation cycle is a cycle in a graph whose vertices are labeled by the quivers in a given mutation class and whose edges correspond to single mutations. For any fixed n4n\ge 4, we describe arbitrarily long mutation cycles involving nn-vertex quivers. Each of these mutation cycles allows for an arbitrary choice of (n2)n \choose 2 positive integer parameters. None of the mutation cycles we construct can be paved by short mutation cycles.

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@article{arxiv.2304.11505,
  title  = {Long mutation cycles},
  author = {Sergey Fomin and Scott Neville},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11505},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

41 page, 15 figures. Minor editorial changes. This is the final version, to appear in Selecta Mathematica

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