Cluster algebras of finite type via Coxeter elements and principal minors. (Q1024607)

It is well-known that finite type Kac-Moody and finite type cluster algebras share the same Cartan-Killing classification. However, the connection between the two theories is not trivial as, for example, the coordinate ring of a variety associated with a semisimple algebraic group \(G\) may carry a natural cluster algebra structure, whose Cartan-Killing type is different from that of \(G\). In the paper under review the authors realize the cluster algebra of an arbitrary finite type with principal coefficients at an arbitrary acyclic seed as the coordinate ring of a certain reduced double Bruhat cell in the simply connected semisimple algebraic group of the same Cartan-Killing type. In this realization the authors are also able to get explicit formulae for cluster variables, which appear as certain generalized principal minors. In the \(A_n\) case the authors even describe all exchange relations. The authors also give a Lie-theoretic interpretation for the data necessary to pass from principal coefficients to any choice of coefficients. The paper is self-contained.