On Cluster Algebras Arising from Unpunctured Surfaces

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DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNP047zbMATH Open1171.30019arXiv0712.4131OpenAlexW2126744887MaRDI QIDQ3396249FDOQ3396249


Authors: Ralf Schiffler, Hugh Thomas Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 16 September 2009

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study cluster algebras that are associated to unpunctured surfaces with coefficients arising from boundary arcs. We give a direct formula for the Laurent polynomial expansion of cluster variables in these cluster algebras in terms of certain paths on a triangulation of the surface. As an immediate consequence, we prove the positivity conjecture of Fomin and Zelevinsky for these cluster algebras. In the special case where the cluster algebra is acyclic, we also give a formula for the expansion of cluster variables as a polynomial whose indeterminates are the cluster variables contained in the union of an arbitrary acyclic cluster and all its neighbouring clusters in the mutation graph.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4131




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