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SIGMA, 2021 Volume 17, 080, 34 pp. (Mi sigma1762)

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An Expansion Formula for Decorated Super-Teichmüller Spaces

Gregg Musiker, Nicholas Ovenhouse, Sylvester W. Zhang

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Abstract: Motivated by the definition of super-Teichmüller spaces, and Penner–Zeitlin's recent extension of this definition to decorated super-Teichmüller space, as examples of super Riemann surfaces, we use the super Ptolemy relations to obtain formulas for super $\lambda$-lengths associated to arcs in a bordered surface. In the special case of a disk, we are able to give combinatorial expansion formulas for the super $\lambda$-lengths associated to diagonals of a polygon in the spirit of Ralf Schiffler's $T$-path formulas for type $A$ cluster algebras. We further connect our formulas to the super-friezes of Morier-Genoud, Ovsienko, and Tabachnikov, and obtain partial progress towards defining super cluster algebras of type $A_n$. In particular, following Penner–Zeitlin, we are able to get formulas (up to signs) for the $\mu$-invariants associated to triangles in a triangulated polygon, and explain how these provide a step towards understanding odd variables of a super cluster algebra.

Keywords: cluster algebras, Laurent polynomials, decorated Teichmüller spaces, supersymmetry.

MSC: 13F60, 17A70, 30F60

Received: March 31, 2021; in final form August 27, 2021; Published online September 1, 2021

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2021.080



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ArXiv: 2102.09143


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