Reduction of cluster iteration maps (Q2514337)

In the paper under review the iteration maps of difference equations arising from mutation-periodic quivers of arbitrary period are studied. Using tools from cluster algebra theory and presymplectic geometry, it is shown that these cluster iteration maps can be reduced to symplectic maps on a lower-dimensional submanifold, provided the matrix representing the quiver is singular. The reduced iteration map is explicitly computed for several periodic quivers using either the presymplectic reduction or a Poisson reduction via log-canonical Poisson structures. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 introduces basic notions of the theory of cluster algebras that are necessary for subsequent sections, in particular, the definition of mutation-periodic quivers and the construction of the associated iteration map. The next section is devoted to the proof of the main result (Theorem 3.4), on the reduction of cluster iteration maps to symplectic maps. An essential point in this proof is Theorem 3.1 which shows that the standard log presymplectic form of a mutation-periodic quiver is invariant under its iteration map. In Section 4 the authors explain how to apply Theorem 3.4 and a theorem by E. Cartan to explicitly compute the reduced iteration map in Darboux coordinates. The last section is devoted to the Poisson approach to reduction.