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Cluster mutation via quiver representations

  • Aslak Bakke Buan

    University of Trondheim, Norway

  • Robert J. Marsh

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

  • Idun Reiten

    University of Trondheim, Norway
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Abstract

Matrix mutation appears in the definition of cluster algebras of Fomin and Zelevinsky. We give a representation theoretic interpretation of matrix mutation, using tilting theory in cluster categories of hereditary algebras. Using this, we obtain a representation theoretic interpretation of cluster mutation in case of acyclic cluster algebras.

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Aslak Bakke Buan, Robert J. Marsh, Idun Reiten, Cluster mutation via quiver representations. Comment. Math. Helv. 83 (2008), no. 1, pp. 143–177

DOI 10.4171/CMH/121