Cluster-additive functions on stable translation quivers. (Q1759330)

A translation quiver is one of the form \(\Gamma=(\Gamma_0,\Gamma_1,\tau)\) with \((\Gamma_0,\Gamma_1)\) being a locally finite quiver with \(m_{xy}\) arrows \(x\to y\) and \(\tau\colon(\Gamma_0\setminus\Gamma_0^p)\to\Gamma_0\) being an injective function with the property that for any \(y,z\in\Gamma_0\) with \(z\not\in\Gamma_0^p\) one has that \(m_{\tau z,y}=m_{y,z}\). A quiver is called stable if there are neither projective vertices (those in \(\Gamma_0^p\)), nor injective ones (that is, those not in the image of \(\tau\)). The standard example of a translation quiver is, for an algebraically closed field \(k\), the Auslander-Reiten quiver of a finite-dimensional \(k\)-algebra \(A\). Such a quiver is actually equipped with an additive function \(f\colon\Gamma_0\to\mathbb Z\) such that, for any vertex \(z\), we have that \(f(z)\) is the length of the corresponding \(A\)-module. In this context, an additive function \(f\) is one which satisfies \(f(z)+f(\tau z)=\sum_{y\in\Gamma_0}m_{yz}f(y)\) for all \(z\in\Gamma_0\setminus\Gamma_0^p\). In the paper under review, the author's main interest is in translation quivers of the form \(\mathbb Z\Delta\), where \(\Delta\) is a Dynkin quiver, that is, the underlying graph is one of the simple laced Dynkin diagrams \(\mathbb A_n\), \(\mathbb D_n\), \(\mathbb E_6\), \(\mathbb E_7\), \(\mathbb E_8\). Thus, the main theorem of the paper (Theorem 4) states that for \(\Delta\) of type \(\mathbb A_n\), any cluster-additive function on \(\mathbb Z\Delta\) is a non-negative linear combination of the so-called cluster-hammock functions (the precise definition of the latter can be found in Section 5 of the paper). The author then conjectures that the same type of result would be true for all other Dynkin cases, which in turn would give the analog of a result of Butler which states that for a representation-finite algebra \(A\), the additive functions of the Auslander-Reiten quiver of \(A\) are the linear combinations of the hammock functions. Several nice pictorial representations of the quivers involved as well as the situations arising in the exposition are provided, which definitely helps the reader gain a deeper understanding of the material.