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The Tutte polynomial and toric Nakajima quiver varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2021

Tarig Abdelgadir
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom t.abdelgadir@lboro.ac.uk
Anton Mellit
Affiliation:
University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, Vienna 1090, Austria, anton.mellit@univie.ac.at
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas
Affiliation:
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Stada Costiera 11, Trieste 34151, Italy villegas@ictp.it

Abstract

For a quiver $Q$ with underlying graph $\Gamma$, we take $ {\mathcal {M}}$ an associated toric Nakajima quiver variety. In this article, we give a direct relation between a specialization of the Tutte polynomial of $\Gamma$, the Kac polynomial of $Q$ and the Poincaré polynomial of $ {\mathcal {M}}$. We do this by giving a cell decomposition of $ {\mathcal {M}}$ indexed by spanning trees of $\Gamma$ and ‘geometrizing’ the deletion and contraction operators on graphs. These relations have been previously established in Hausel–Sturmfels [6] and Crawley-Boevey–Van den Bergh [3], however the methods here are more hands-on.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Society of Edinburgh

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