Cluster algebras of type D₄, tropical planes, and the positive tropical Grassmannian

DOI10.1007/S13366-016-0316-4MaRDI QIDQ515716zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sarah B. Brodsky, Cesar Ceballos, Jean-Philippe Labbé

Publication date 16 March 2017

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02699

zbMATH Keywords

cluster complexcomputational methodsGrassmannianpseudotriangulationstropical planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cluster algebras (13F60) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Planar arrangements of lines and pseudolines (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C30)

Abstract: We show that the number of combinatorial types of clusters of type $D_4$ modulo reflection-rotation is exactly equal to the number of combinatorial types of tropical planes in $mathbb{TP}^5$. This follows from a result of Sturmfels and Speyer which classifies these tropical planes into seven combinatorial classes using a detailed study of the tropical Grassmannian $operatornameGr(3,6)$. Speyer and Williams show that the positive part $operatorname{Gr}^{+}(3,6)$ of this tropical Grassmannian is combinatorially equivalent to a small coarsening of the cluster fan of type $D_4$. We provide a structural bijection between the rays of $operatorname{Gr}^{+}(3,6)$ and the almost positive roots of type $D_4$ which makes this connection more precise. This bijection allows us to use the pseudotriangulations model of the cluster algebra of type $D_4$ to describe the equivalence of "positive" tropical planes in $mathbb{TP}^5$, giving a combinatorial model which characterizes the combinatorial types of tropical planes using automorphisms of pseudotriangulations of the octogon.

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• SageMath
• polymake

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