Calabi–Yau properties of Postnikov diagrams

Abstract

Abstract We show that the dimer algebra of a connected Postnikov diagram in the disc is bimodule internally $3$ -Calabi–Yau in the sense of the author’s earlier work [43]. As a consequence, we obtain an additive categorification of the cluster algebra associated to the diagram, which (after inverting frozen variables) is isomorphic to the homogeneous coordinate ring of a positroid variety in the Grassmannian by a recent result of Galashin and Lam [18]. We show that our categorification can be realised as a full extension closed subcategory of Jensen–King–Su’s Grassmannian cluster category [28], in a way compatible with their bijection between rank $1$ modules and Plücker coordinates.