Flip cycles in plabic graphs

DOI10.1007/S00029-020-0544-1MaRDI QIDQ2297844zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexey Balitskiy, Julian Wellman

Publication date 20 February 2020

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01530

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Baues problemplanar bicolored graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic combinatorics (05E99) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

Abstract: Planar bicolored (plabic) graphs are combinatorial objects introduced by Postnikov to give parameterizations of the positroid cells of the totally nonnegative Grassmannian $ext{Gr}^{geq0}(n,k)$. Any two plabic graphs for the same positroid cell can be related by a sequence of certain moves. The flip graph has plabic graphs as vertices and has edges connecting the plabic graphs which are related by a single move. A recent result of Galashin shows that plabic graphs can be seen as cross-sections of zonotopal tilings for the cyclic zonotope $Z(n,3)$. Taking this perspective, we show that the fundamental group of the flip graph is generated by cycles of length 4, 5, and 10, and use this result to prove a related conjecture of Dylan Thurston about triple crossing diagrams. We also apply our result to make progress on an instance of the generalized Baues problem.

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