The discrete fundamental group of the associahedron, and the exchange module

DOI10.1142/S0218196713400079MaRDI QIDQ2842018zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hélène Barcelo, Christopher Severs, Jacob A. White

Publication date 30 July 2013

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2810

zbMATH Keywords

cluster algebrasassociahedrondiscrete homotopy theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Equivariant homotopy theory in algebraic topology (55P91)

Abstract: The associahedron is an object that has been well studied and has numerous applications, particularly in the theory of operads, the study of non-crossing partitions, lattice theory and more recently in the study of cluster algebras. We approach the associahedron from the point of view of discrete homotopy theory. We study the abelianization of the discrete fundamental group, and show that it is free abelian of rank $$. We also find a combinatorial description for a basis of this rank. We also introduce the exchange module of the type $A_n$ cluster algebra, used to model the relations in the cluster algebra. We use the discrete fundamental group to the study of exchange module, and show that it is also free abelian of rank $$.

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