Relationship of Mutation of Dimer Graphs at 4-Faces and Quiver Mutations at 4-Valent Vertices

Poster Number

25

Lead Author Major

Mathematics

Lead Author Status

Junior

Format

Poster Presentation

Faculty Mentor Name

Alex Dugas

Faculty Mentor Department

Mathematics

Abstract/Artist Statement

We introduce quivers, a mathematical abstraction of a network with a sense of direction. These arose naturally from triangulations of polygons of n-sides with special interest in mathematical problems involved in counting (combinatorics). Today, they are popular as areas of research in combinatorics, representation theory, and theoretical physics.

Part of our main focus is on the concept of restricted mutations of a quiver. In the case of triangulated surfaces this means we are interested in how many distinct triangulations we can find by modifying only one diagonal of a triangulation at a time. In the more general case, this corresponds to applying the mutation transformation on a vertex with 2 arrows incoming and 2 arrows outgoing.

The conjecture this project focused on was to show that infinitely many restricted mutation transformations lead to only finitely many unique quivers. While unable to give a proof/disproof of this conjecture, we did compute many examples which lead finitely many unique quivers. To achieve this, we modified a pre-existing program by Dr. Bernhard Keller and ran it on many different example quivers.

The other portion this project focused on was to relate quiver mutations to another construction known as dimer graphs. Dimer graphs can be thought of as undirected networks where all of the vertices are either black or white with the additional restriction that one can only connect black vertices to white vertices and vice versa. To each dimer graph, there is also an associated dimer quiver. Provided certain conditions met, we were able to define and prove a new transformation on the dimer graph that corresponds exactly to a modified version of quiver mutation at vertices with 2 arrows incoming and 2 arrows outgoing. We refer to this transformation as a 4-face mutation on the dimer graph.

Location

Information Commons, William Knox Holt Memorial Library and Learning Center

Start Date

29-4-2023 10:00 AM

End Date

29-4-2023 1:00 PM

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Relationship of Mutation of Dimer Graphs at 4-Faces and Quiver Mutations at 4-Valent Vertices

Information Commons, William Knox Holt Memorial Library and Learning Center

We introduce quivers, a mathematical abstraction of a network with a sense of direction. These arose naturally from triangulations of polygons of n-sides with special interest in mathematical problems involved in counting (combinatorics). Today, they are popular as areas of research in combinatorics, representation theory, and theoretical physics.

Part of our main focus is on the concept of restricted mutations of a quiver. In the case of triangulated surfaces this means we are interested in how many distinct triangulations we can find by modifying only one diagonal of a triangulation at a time. In the more general case, this corresponds to applying the mutation transformation on a vertex with 2 arrows incoming and 2 arrows outgoing.

The conjecture this project focused on was to show that infinitely many restricted mutation transformations lead to only finitely many unique quivers. While unable to give a proof/disproof of this conjecture, we did compute many examples which lead finitely many unique quivers. To achieve this, we modified a pre-existing program by Dr. Bernhard Keller and ran it on many different example quivers.

The other portion this project focused on was to relate quiver mutations to another construction known as dimer graphs. Dimer graphs can be thought of as undirected networks where all of the vertices are either black or white with the additional restriction that one can only connect black vertices to white vertices and vice versa. To each dimer graph, there is also an associated dimer quiver. Provided certain conditions met, we were able to define and prove a new transformation on the dimer graph that corresponds exactly to a modified version of quiver mutation at vertices with 2 arrows incoming and 2 arrows outgoing. We refer to this transformation as a 4-face mutation on the dimer graph.