Frieze patterns with coefficients

Michael Cuntz, Thorsten Holm, Peter Jørgensen

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Abstract

Frieze patterns, as introduced by Coxeter in the 1970s, are closely related to cluster algebras without coefficients. A suitable generalization of frieze patterns, linked to cluster algebras with coefficients, has only briefly appeared in an unpublished manuscript by Propp. In this paper, we study these frieze patterns with coefficients systematically and prove various fundamental results, generalizing classic results for frieze patterns. As a consequence, we see how frieze patterns with coefficients can be obtained from classic frieze patterns by cutting out subpolygons from the triangulated polygons associated with classic Conway-Coxeter frieze patterns. We address the question of which frieze patterns with coefficients can be obtained in this way and solve this problem completely for triangles. Finally, we prove a finiteness result for frieze patterns with coefficients by showing that for a given boundary sequence there are only finitely many (nonzero) frieze patterns with coefficients with entries in a subset of the complex numbers without an accumulation point.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere17
JournalForum of Mathematics, Sigma
Volume8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 13F60 05E15 05E99 51M20

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