Preprojective Cluster Variables of Acyclic Cluster Algebras

Abstract

It is proved that any cluster-tilted algebra defined in the cluster category 𝒞(H) has the same representation type as the initial hereditary algebra H. For any valued quiver (Γ, Ω), an injection from the subset 𝒫ℐ(Ω) of the cluster category 𝒞(Ω) consisting of indecomposable preprojective objects, preinjective objects, and the first shifts of indecomposable projective modules to the set of cluster variables of the corresponding cluster algebra 𝒜Ω is given. The images are called “preprojective cluster variables”. It is proved that all preprojective cluster variables other than ui have denominators u dim M in their irreducible fractions of integral polynomials, where M is the corresponding preprojective module or preinjective module. In case the valued quiver (Γ, Ω) is of finite type, the denominator theorem holds with respect to any cluster. Namely, let x = (x1,…, xn) be a cluster of the cluster algebra 𝒜Ω, and V the cluster tilting object in 𝒞(Ω) corresponding to x, whose endomorphism algebra is denoted by Λ. Then the denominator of any cluster variable y other than xi is x dim M, where M is the indecomposable Λ-module corresponding to y. This result is a generalization of the corresponding result of Caldero–Chapoton–Schiffler to the non-simply-laced case.