Unpunctured Surfaces Research Articles

Cluster algebras of unpunctured surfaces and snake graphs

We study cluster algebras with principal coefficient systems that are associated to unpunctured surfaces. We give a direct formula for the Laurent polynomial expansion of cluster variables in these cluster algebras in terms of perfect matchings of a certain graph $G_{T,\gamma}$ that is constructed from the surface by recursive glueing of elementary pieces that we call tiles. We also give a second formula for these Laurent polynomial expansions in terms of subgraphs of the graph $G_{T,\gamma}$ . Nous étudions des algèbres amassées avec coefficients principaux associées aux surfaces. Nous présentons une formule directe pour les développements de Laurent des variables amassées dans ces algèbres en terme de couplages parfaits d'un certain graphe $G_{T,\gamma}$ que l'on construit a partir de la surface en recollant des pièces élémentaires que l'on appelle carreaux. Nous donnons aussi une seconde formule pour ces développements en termes de sous-graphes de $G_{T,\gamma}$ .

Representations with Weighted Frames and Framed Parabolic Bundles

AbstractThere is a well-known correspondence (due to Mehta and Seshadri in the unitary case, and extended by Bhosle and Ramanathan to other groups), between the symplectic variety Mh of representations of the fundamental group of a punctured Riemann surface into a compact connected Lie group G, with fixed conjugacy classes h at the punctures, and a complex variety of holomorphic bundles on the unpunctured surface with a parabolic structure at the puncture points. For G = SU(2), we build a symplectic variety P of pairs (representations of the fundamental group into G, “weighted frame” at the puncture points), and a corresponding complex variety of moduli of “framed parabolic bundles”, which encompass respectively all of the spaces Mh, , in the sense that one can obtain Mh from P by symplectic reduction, andMh from by a complex quotient. This allows us to explain certain features of the toric geometry of the SU(2) moduli spaces discussed by Jeffrey and Weitsman, by giving the actual toric variety associated with their integrable system.