Stability conditions and cluster varieties

Abstract: In the first part of the talk, I will describe a construction in low-dimensional topology that takes a holomorphic quadratic differential on a surface and produces a $PGL(2)$-local system. This construction provides a local homeomorphism from the moduli space of quadratic differentials to the moduli space of local systems. In the second part of the talk, I will propose a categorical generalization of this construction. In this generalization, the space of quadratic differentials is replaced by a complex manifold parametrizing Bridgeland stability conditions on a certain 3-Calabi-Yau triangulated category, while the space of local systems is replaced by a cluster variety. I will describe a local homeomorphism from the space of stability conditions to the cluster variety in a large class of examples and explain how it preserves the structures of these two spaces.

mathematical physicscommutative algebraalgebraic geometrycombinatoricsquantum algebrarings and algebrasrepresentation theory

Audience: researchers in the topic

Online Cluster Algebra Seminar (OCAS)