Asymptotic sign coherence conjecture

Let B=B^[N]B=\hat B_{[N]} be irreducible. Let μ=(μkj)j=1\mu=(\mu_{k_j})_{j=1}^\infty be a sequence of matrix mutations applied to B^\hat B, and suppose that μ\mu is monotone and balanced, meaning that its distance from the initial exchange matrix strictly increases at every step and every mutation direction occurs with positive lower asymptotic frequency. For a nonzero vector aZN\mathbf a\in\mathbb Z^N, let σμ(n)(a)\sigma_\mu^{(n)}(\mathbf a) be the sign vector of the last row a(n)\mathbf a^{(n)} after the first nn mutations.

Asymptotic sign coherence conjecture. There exists a sequence of strict sign vectors

σreg=(σreg(n))n=0,σreg(n){+,}N,\sigma_{\mathrm{reg}}=\left(\sigma_{\mathrm{reg}}^{(n)}\right)_{n=0}^\infty,\qquad \sigma_{\mathrm{reg}}^{(n)}\in\{+,-\}^N,

such that for every nonzero aZN\mathbf a\in\mathbb Z^N there is TNT\in\mathbb N with

σμ(n)(a)=σreg(n)\sigma_\mu^{(n)}(\mathbf a)=\sigma_{\mathrm{reg}}^{(n)}

for all n>Tn>T.

The conjecture describes the eventual sign behavior of generalized cc-vectors for arbitrary cluster algebras of geometric type. It is proved in the paper for rank-22 cluster algebras of infinite type and for a particular mutation sequence in the cluster algebra associated with the Markov quiver; the general assertion remains open.

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Michael Gekhtman and Tomoki Nakanishi, “Asymptotic sign coherence conjecture”, arXiv:1904.00971 (2019).

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