Conjectural formulas for cluster variables of star graphs

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Let SnS_n be the star graph on nn vertices, with central vertex labeled by 11, and let

C={{3},{4},…,{n},{1,3,4,…,n}}.\mathcal{C}=\{\{3\},\{4\},\dots,\{n\},\{1,3,4,\dots,n\}\}.

For a vertex subset SS, write YSY_S for the associated cluster-algebra element and [n]={1,…,n}[n]=\{1,\dots,n\}. The cluster is C\mathcal{C}, and the formulas below conjecturally describe YSY_S for every vertex subset SS. Star-graph cluster formula conjecture. If 1∈S1\in S, then

YS={∏i∈S\{1,2}Yi2Y[n]\{1,2}(∑i∉S∏j≠1,2,iYj)+Y[n]∏i∈[n]\SYi+Y[n]Y[n]\{2}(∑i∈[n]\S1Yi),2∉S,Y[n]\{2}∏i∈[n\(S∪{2})]Yi+(∏i∈S\{1}Yi)(∑j∈[n]\(S∪{2})1Yi),2∈S.Y_S=\begin{cases} \displaystyle\frac{\prod\limits_{i\in S\backslash\{1,2\}}Y_i^2}{Y_{[n]\backslash\{1,2\}}}\left(\sum\limits_{i\notin S}\prod\limits_{j\ne1,2,i}Y_j\right)+\frac{Y_{[n]}}{\prod\limits_{i\in[n]\backslash S}Y_i}+\frac{Y_{[n]}}{Y_{[n]\backslash\{2\}}}\left(\sum\limits_{i\in[n]\backslash S}\frac{1}{Y_i}\right),&2\notin S,\\[2mm] \displaystyle\frac{Y_{[n]\backslash\{2\}}}{\prod\limits_{i\in[n\backslash(S\cup\{2\})]}Y_i}+\left(\prod\limits_{i\in S\backslash\{1\}}Y_i\right)\left(\sum\limits_{j\in[n]\backslash(S\cup\{2\})}\frac{1}{Y_i}\right),&2\in S. \end{cases}

If 1∉S1\notin S, then SS consists either of disconnected leaves or of a single leaf, and

Y_S=\begin{cases}Y_i,&S=\{i\},\\prod\limits_{i\in S}Y_i,&\text{otherwise.}\end{cases}

Here the source uses textrm⁡if\operatorname{textrm}{if} and contains an apparent index mismatch in the second case, with YiY_i occurring inside a sum indexed by jj; these expressions are retained mathematically as stated. The conjecture proposes explicit formulas for cluster-algebra elements associated with subsets of a star graph and is presented as a future direction for extending rooted-cluster results to other clusters. No resolution is supplied in the source.

References

Primary source

Esther Banaian, Sunita Chepuri, Elizabeth Kelley and Sylvester W. Zhang, “Rooted Clusters for Graph LP Algebras”, arXiv:2107.14785 (2022).

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