Fomin–Zelevinsky sign-coherence conjecture for c- and d-vectors

Let BB be any skew-symmetrizable matrix. The cc-vectors and dd-vectors of the principal-coefficients cluster algebra A(B)\mathcal{A}_\bullet(B) are defined by the coefficient and cluster-variable mutation recurrences, respectively.

Sign-coherence conjecture. (i) Any cc-vector of A(B)\mathcal{A}_\bullet(B) is a nonzero vector, and its components are either all non-negative or all non-positive. (ii) Any non-initial dd-vector of A(B)\mathcal{A}_\bullet(B) is a nonzero vector, and its components are all nonnegative.

These sign properties are fundamental to the structure theory of cluster algebras. The source attributes the two parts to conjectures of Fomin and Zelevinsky; no resolution status is supplied here.

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Tomoki Nakanishi and Salvatore Stella, “Diagrammatic description of c-vectors and d-vectors of cluster algebras of finite type”, arXiv:1210.6299 (2014).

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