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

DOI10.1142/S0218196713400079zbMATH Open1268.05239arXiv1012.2810MaRDI QIDQ2842018FDOQ2842018

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)

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 $$. We also find a combinatorial description for a basis of this rank. We also introduce the exchange module of the type $A_n$ cluster algebra, used to model the relations in the cluster algebra. We use the discrete fundamental group to the study of exchange module, and show that it is also free abelian of rank $$.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

cluster algebrasassociahedrondiscrete homotopy theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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