A complete derived invariant for gentle algebras via winding numbers and Arf invariants

By C. Amiot, Pierre-Guy Plamondon, Sibylle Schroll. Selecta Mathematica, 2019

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Gentle algebras are in bijection with admissible dissections of marked oriented surfaces. In this paper, we further study the properties of admissible dissections and we show that silting objects for gentle algebras are given by admissible dissections of the associated surface. We associate to each gentle algebra a line field on the corresponding surface and prove that the derived equivalence class of the algebra is completely determined by the homotopy class of the line field up to homeomorphism of the surface. Then, based on winding numbers and the Arf invariant of a certain quadratic form over $${\mathbb {Z}}_2$$ Z 2 , we translate this to a numerical complete derived invariant for gentle algebras.

Subfields: Algebra and Number Theory, Geometry and Topology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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