Cluster structures from 2-Calabi-Yau categories with loops (Q611992)

Cluster categories were defined to be certain orbit categories of certain triangulated categories. Clusters correspond to maximal rigid objects. Mutation is obtained in the following way. One removes from a maximal rigid object an indecomposable summand and shows there is a unique way to complete the remaining object by an indecomposable one to obtain a maximal rigid object different from the original maximal rigid object. Fomin-Zelevinsky defined mutation in a very combinatorial fashion and there is a procedure to link these two concepts by taking endomorphism algebras of the maximal rigid object in case these endomorphism algebras have a quiver without loops or \(2\)-cycles. The present paper removes the hypothesis that there are no loops and gives a correspondence in case there may be loops but \(2\)-cycles still are not allowed. The authors apply their theory to type \(B\) cluster combinatorics.