Toda systems, cluster characters, and spectral networks (Q329591)

From the introduction: ``The first purpose of this paper is to study a basic example of a cluster integrable system, the open relativistic Toda chain, from the point of view of additive categorification of cluster algebras... Our first main result is that the open relativistic Toda Hamiltonians, while not cluster variables, are nonetheless elements of the generic basis... Our second main result uses cluster coordinates to identify the phase space \(\mathrm{SL}^{c,c}_n / \text{Ad} H\) with a wild character variety in such a way that the relativistic Toda Hamiltonians are identified with traces of holonomies around a simple closed curve\dots. Our reason for considering the above two results in conjunction is that they prove a natural expectation regarding canonical bases in coordinate rings of (possibly wild) \(\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{C})\)-character varieties of punctured surfaces: that the expansion in cluster coordinates of the trace in an \(\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{C})\)-representation of the holonomy around a simple closed curve is the cluster character of a representation of the associated quiver with potential.'' Additional context from the physics literature is also found in the introduction.