Cluster algebras and continued fractions

Methods and results from the representation theory of finite di- mensional algebras have led to many interactions with other areas of mathe- matics. Such areas include the theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups, commutative algebra, algebraic geometry and topology, and in particular the new theory of cluster algebras. The aim of this workshop was to further de- velop such interactions and to stimulate progress in the representation theory of algebras.

Cluster algebras were conceived by Fomin and Zelevinsky (1) in the spring of 2000 as a tool for studying dual canonical bases and total positivity in semisimple Lie groups. However, the theory of cluster algebras has since taken on a life of its own, as connections and applications have been discovered in diverse areas of mathematics, including representation theory of quivers and finite dimensional algebras, cf., for example, refs. 2⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–15; Poisson geometry (16⇓⇓–19); Teichmuller theory (20⇓⇓⇓–24); string theory (25⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–31); discrete dynamical systems and integrability (6, 32⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–38); and combinatorics (39⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–47). Quite remarkably, cluster algebras provide a unifying algebraic and combinatorial framework for a wide variety of phenomena in these and other settings. We refer the reader to the survey papers (36, 48⇓⇓⇓⇓–53) and to the cluster algebras portal (www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~fomin/cluster.html) for various introductions to cluster algebras and their links with other subjects in mathematics (and physics). In brief, a cluster algebra A of rank k is a subring of an ambient field ℱ of rational functions in k variables, say x 1, …, x k . Unlike most commutative rings, a cluster algebra is not presented at the outset via a complete set of generators and relations. Instead, from the data of the initial seed — which includes the k initial cluster variables x 1, …, x k , plus an exchange matrix — one uses an iterative procedure called “mutation” to produce the rest of the cluster variables. In particular, each new cluster … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: williams{at}math.berkeley.edu. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1

The connections between the Golden Ratio namely (1 + √5)/2, a simple continued fraction, and Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, are familiar. The Fibonacci and Lucas numbers have many fascinating properties. We now point out that the square root of the Golden Ratio is the real part of a simple periodic continued fraction but using (complex) Gaussian integers a + ib instead of the natural integers. This fact provokes a definition and a study of complex Fibonacci and Lucas numbers, and the study again turns out to have a rich theoretic structure. A fuller account will appear in The Fibonacci Quarterly.

This is a bibliographical review that provides a brief glimpse into the beauty of continued fractions and how they can be very useful, both in obtaining good rational approximations of a given real number and in their representation as a continued fraction. Furthermore, it presents important properties, such as the relationship between quadratic irrationals and periodic continued fractions. On the other hand, with a view to a potential introduction of this topic in elementary education, a method for obtaining square root approximations through continued fractions is presented. Finally, using more advanced tools, we present an infinite continued fraction representation of the Euler number, which consequently implies the irrationality of e.

Периодичность и квазипериодичность функциональных непрерывных дробей в гиперэллиптическом поле $$L = \mathbb{Q}(x)(\sqrt{f})$$ имеет более сложную природу, чем периодичность числовых непрерывных дробей элементов квадратичных полей. Известно, что периодичность непрерывной дроби элемента $$\sqrt{f}/h^{g+1}$$, построенной по нормированию, связанному с многочленом h первой степени, эквивалентна наличию нетривиальных S-единиц в поле L рода g и эквивалентна наличию нетривиального кручения в группе классов дивизоров. В данной статье найден точный промежуток значений $$s \in \mathbb{Z}$$ таких, что элементы $$\sqrt{f}/h^s$$ имеют периодическое разложение в непрерывную дробь, где $$f \in \mathbb{Q}[x]$$ - свободный от квадратов многочлен четной степени. Для многочленов f нечетной степени проблема периодичности непрерывных дробей элементов вида $$\sqrt{f}/h^s$$ рассмотрена в статье [5], причем там доказано, что длина квазипериода не превосходит степени фундаментальной S-единицы поля L. Проблема периодичности непрерывных дробей элементов вида $$\sqrt{f}/h^s$$ для многочленов f четной степени является более сложной. Это подчеркивается найденным нами примером многочлена f степени 4, для которого соответствующие непрерывные дроби имеют аномально большую длину периода. Ранее в статье [5] также были найдены примеры непрерывных дробей элементов гиперэллиптического поля L с длиной квазипериода значительно превосходившей степень фундаментальной S-единицы поля L.

This is a call for contributions to a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical dedicated to cluster algebras in mathematical physics. Over the ten years since their introduction by Fomin and Zelevinsky, the theory of cluster algebras has witnessed a spectacular growth, first and foremost due to the many links that have been discovered with a wide range of subjects in mathematics and, increasingly, theoretical and mathematical physics. The main motivation of this special issue is to gather together reviews, recent developments and open problems, mainly from a mathematical physics viewpoint, into a single comprehensive issue. We expect that such a special issue will become a valuable reference for the broad scientific community working in mathematical and theoretical physics. The issue will consist of invited review articles and contributed papers containing new results on the interplays of cluster algebras with mathematical physics.Editorial policyThe Guest Editors for this issue are Philippe Di Francesco, Michael Gekhtman, Atsuo Kuniba and Masahito Yamazaki.The areas and topics for this issue include, but are not limited to: discrete integrable systems arising from cluster mutationscluster structure on Poisson varietiescluster algebras and soliton interactionscluster positivity conjectureY-systems in the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz and Zamolodchikov's periodicity conjectureT-system of transfer matrices of integrable lattice modelsdilogarithm identities in conformal field theorywall crossing in 4d N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories4d N = 1 quiver gauge theories described by networksscattering amplitudes of 4d N = 4 theories3d N = 2 gauge theories described by flat connections on 3-manifoldsintegrability of dimer/Ising models on graphs.All contributions will be refereed and processed according to the usual procedure of the journal.Guidelines for preparation of contributions The deadline for contributed papers is 31 March 2014. This deadline will allow the special issue to appear at the end of 2014.There is no strict regulation on article size, but as a guide the preferable size is 15–30 pages for contributed papers and 40–60 pages for reviews. Further advice on publishing your work in Journal of Physics A may be found at iopscience.iop.org/jphysa.Contributions to the special issue should be submitted by web upload via ScholarOne Manuscripts, quoting ‘JPhysA special issue on cluster algebras in mathematical physics’. Submissions should ideally be in standard LaTeX form. Please see the website for further information on electronic submissions.All contributions should be accompanied by a read-me file or covering letter giving the postal and e-mail addresses for correspondence. The Publishing Office should be notified of any subsequent change of address.The special issue will be published in the print and online versions of the journal.

This is a call for contributions to a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical dedicated to cluster algebras in mathematical physics. Over the ten years since their introduction by Fomin and Zelevinsky, the theory of cluster algebras has witnessed a spectacular growth, first and foremost due to the many links that have been discovered with a wide range of subjects in mathematics and, increasingly, theoretical and mathematical physics. The main motivation of this special issue is to gather together reviews, recent developments and open problems, mainly from a mathematical physics viewpoint, into a single comprehensive issue. We expect that such a special issue will become a valuable reference for the broad scientific community working in mathematical and theoretical physics. The issue will consist of invited review articles and contributed papers containing new results on the interplays of cluster algebras with mathematical physics.Editorial policyThe Guest Editors for this issue are Philippe Di Francesco, Michael Gekhtman, Atsuo Kuniba and Masahito Yamazaki.The areas and topics for this issue include, but are not limited to: discrete integrable systems arising from cluster mutationscluster structure on Poisson varietiescluster algebras and soliton interactionscluster positivity conjectureY-systems in the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz and Zamolodchikov's periodicity conjectureT-system of transfer matrices of integrable lattice modelsdilogarithm identities in conformal field theorywall crossing in 4d N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories4d N = 1 quiver gauge theories described by networksscattering amplitudes of 4d N = 4 theories3d N = 2 gauge theories described by flat connections on 3-manifoldsintegrability of dimer/Ising models on graphs.All contributions will be refereed and processed according to the usual procedure of the journal.Guidelines for preparation of contributions The deadline for contributed papers is 31 March 2014. This deadline will allow the special issue to appear at the end of 2014.There is no strict regulation on article size, but as a guide the preferable size is 15–30 pages for contributed papers and 40–60 pages for reviews. Further advice on publishing your work in Journal of Physics A may be found at iopscience.iop.org/jphysa.Contributions to the special issue should be submitted by web upload via ScholarOne Manuscripts, quoting ‘JPhysA special issue on cluster algebras in mathematical physics’. Submissions should ideally be in standard LaTeX form. Please see the website for further information on electronic submissions.All contributions should be accompanied by a read-me file or covering letter giving the postal and e-mail addresses for correspondence. The Publishing Office should be notified of any subsequent change of address.The special issue will be published in the print and online versions of the journal.

In this paper we first give the value of a periodic continued fraction which was recorded incorrectly by Ramanujan on page 341 of his lost notebook. Next, we describe several pairs of equivalent continued fractions in which one is the odd part of the other. One of the results is for the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction which was recently proved by Berndt and Yee. Finally, using the Bauer-Muir transformation we prove the equivalence of two continued fractions. One was recorded on page 44 in Ramanujan’s lost notebook, and the other is found in the unorganized pages at the end of Ramanujan’s second notebook.

Recently it has become apparent that N = 2 supersymmetric quantum field theory has something to do with cluster algebras. I review one aspect of the connection: supersymmetric quantum field theories have associated hyperkähler moduli spaces, and these moduli spaces carry a structure that looks like an extension of the notion of cluster variety. In particular, one encounters the usual variables and mutations of the cluster story, along with more exotic extra variables and generalized mutations. I focus on a class of examples where the underlying cluster varieties are moduli spaces of flat connections on surfaces, as considered by Fock and Goncharov [Fock V, Goncharov A (2006) Publ Math Inst Hautes Études Sci 103:1-211]. The work reviewed here is largely joint with Davide Gaiotto and Greg Moore.

defined over the field of rational numbers Q is normal. They do this by noting that, over a field of characteristic 3, F (X) equals 1/ √ 1 + 1/X. The latter has a periodic continued fraction and, as a consequence, they are able to explicitly verify that F (X) is normal. They then use an “automatic” proof to show that the Laurent series of F (X), defined over Q, is normal. Here we shall give a different proof of the latter result (Theorem 4, below) and show, more generally, that if a formal Laurent series Γ (X) defined over Q is defined and normal (mod p) for any prime p, then it is also normal over Q. We shall also consider the continued fraction of the more general surd 1/ √ 1 + u/X + v/X2 over any field not of characteristic 2. Put δ = u/4−v and note that √ 1 + u/X + v/X2 = 1 + u/(2X) when δ = 0. Hence, when δ = 0, the continued fraction expansion is trivial and is not normal. Define

In the classical case, the connection between the periodicity of the continued fraction of $$\sqrt f $$ and the existence of a fundamental unit of the corresponding hyperelliptic field $$\mathcal{L} = K(x)(\sqrt f )$$ , where K is a field of characteristic different from 2, has long been known. For the element $$\sqrt f $$ , the period length of the continued fraction in $$K((1{\text{/}}x))$$ can be trivially estimated from above by the doubled degree of the fundamental unit. Much more complicated and interesting is the problem of estimating (from above) the period length of other elements of $$\mathcal{L}$$ that have a periodic continued fraction. Among these elements, those of the form $$\sqrt f {\text{/}}{{x}^{s}}$$ , $$s \in \mathbb{Z}$$ , play a key role. For such elements, the period length can be many times greater than the double degree of the fundamental unit. In this article, we find upper bounds for the period length of key elements of hyperelliptic fields $$\mathcal{L}$$ over number fields K. An example is found that demonstrates the sharpness of the proven upper bounds.

In this paper we study consequences of the results of Kang et al. [ Monoidal categorification of cluster algebras , J. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (2018), 349–426] on a monoidal categorification of the unipotent quantum coordinate ring $A_{q}(\mathfrak{n}(w))$ together with the Laurent phenomenon of cluster algebras. We show that if a simple module $S$ in the category ${\mathcal{C}}_{w}$ strongly commutes with all the cluster variables in a cluster $[\mathscr{C}]$ , then $[S]$ is a cluster monomial in $[\mathscr{C}]$ . If $S$ strongly commutes with cluster variables except for exactly one cluster variable $[M_{k}]$ , then $[S]$ is either a cluster monomial in $[\mathscr{C}]$ or a cluster monomial in $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}_{k}([\mathscr{C}])$ . We give a new proof of the fact that the upper global basis is a common triangular basis (in the sense of Qin [ Triangular bases in quantum cluster algebras and monoidal categorification conjectures , Duke Math. 166 (2017), 2337–2442]) of the localization $\widetilde{A}_{q}(\mathfrak{n}(w))$ of $A_{q}(\mathfrak{n}(w))$ at the frozen variables. A characterization on the commutativity of a simple module $S$ with cluster variables in a cluster $[\mathscr{C}]$ is given in terms of the denominator vector of $[S]$ with respect to the cluster $[\mathscr{C}]$ .

In 2013, Lee, Li, and Zelevinsky introduced combinatorial objects called compatible pairs to construct the greedy bases for rank-2 cluster algebras, consisting of indecomposable positive elements including the cluster monomials. Subsequently, Rupel extended this construction to the setting of generalized rank-2 cluster algebras by defining compatible gradings. We find a class of combinatorial objects which we call tight gradings. Using this, we give a directly computable, manifestly positive, and elementary but highly nontrivial formula describing rank-2 consistent scattering diagrams. This allows us to show that the coefficients of the wall-functions on a generalized cluster scattering diagram of any rank are positive, which implies the Laurent positivity for generalized cluster algebras and the strong positivity of their theta bases.

These notes are an expanded version of a mini-course given in the CIMPA School ‘Homological Methods, Representation Theory and Cluster Algebras’, held from the 7th to the 18th of March 2016 in Mar del Plata (Argentina). The aim of the course was to introduce the participants to cluster tilted algebras and their applications in the representation theory of algebras.

We describe a connection between the subjects of cluster algebras, polynomial identity algebras, and discriminants. For this, we define the notion of root of unity quantum cluster algebras and prove that they are polynomial identity algebras. Inside each such algebra we construct a (large) canonical central subalgebra, which can be viewed as a far reaching generalization of the central subalgebras of big quantum groups constructed by De Concini, Kac, and Procesi and used in representation theory. Each such central subalgebra is proved to be isomorphic to the underlying classical cluster algebra of geometric type. When the root of unity quantum cluster algebra is free over its central subalgebra, we prove that the discriminant of the pair is a product of powers of the frozen variables times an integer. An extension of this result is also proved for the discriminants of all subalgebras generated by the cluster variables of nerves in the exchange graph. These results can be used for the effective computation of discriminants. As an application we obtain an explicit formula for the discriminant of the integral form over of each quantum unipotent cell of De Concini, Kac, and Procesi for arbitrary symmetrizable Kac–Moody algebras, where is a root of unity.