Cluster algebras and triangulated surfaces. Part II: Lambda lengths
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DOI10.1090/MEMO/1223arXiv1210.5569WikidataQ105614798 ScholiaQ105614798MaRDI QIDQ6236510FDOQ6236510
Authors: Sergey Fomin, Dylan P. Thurston 
Publication date: 19 October 2012
Abstract: For any cluster algebra whose underlying combinatorial data can be encoded by a bordered surface with marked points, we construct a geometric realization in terms of suitable decorated Teichmueller space of the surface. On the geometric side, this requires opening the surface at each interior marked point into an additional geodesic boundary component. On the algebraic side, it relies on the notion of a non-normalized cluster algebra and the machinery of tropical lambda lengths. Our model allows for an arbitrary choice of coefficients which translates into a choice of a family of integral laminations on the surface. It provides an intrinsic interpretation of cluster variables as renormalized lambda lengths of arcs on the surface. Exchange relations are written in terms of the shear coordinates of the laminations, and are interpreted as generalized Ptolemy relations for lambda lengths. This approach gives alternative proofs for the main structural results from our previous paper, removing unnecessary assumptions on the surface.
Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Cluster algebras (13F60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to commutative algebra (13-02)
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