Plabic promotions beyond cluster: quantum cluster structures and the dual canonical basis
Abstract
Plabic tangles define geometric promotion maps between configurations and, after choosing a lift, between Grassmannians. The main conjecture in \cite{Tangles} is that when the tangle is dominant and solvable the induced algebraic promotion is cluster quasi-homomorphism. This work extends the cluster perspective in two directions. First, we initiate the study of quantum promotions. We conjecture that all promotions defined from dominant solvable tangles are naturally lifted to a \emph{quantum cluster quasi homomorphism}, and prove for all cases in the literature that the were shown to be (classical) cluster quasi-homomorphisms. Secondly, we define the notion of cluster-Lusztig quasi-homomorphisms, which are cluster quasi homomorphisms that take Lustig's dual canonical basis elements to dual canonical basis element, up to a Laurent monomial in frozen variables, with clearing and normalization chosen uniformly on each content component. We prove the unexpected result that the classical and quantum m-unary star promotions fall into this category, and conjecture that all promotions coming from dominant solvable tangles share the same property. We then consider promotions via non solvable cores of intersection number higher than one. We use it to study facets of amplituhedron cells, and to show that some of them do not lie in zero loci of dual canonical basis elements, disproving a conjecture by T. Lam \cite{LamGP}.
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BibTeX
@misc{li2026plabic,
title = {{Plabic promotions beyond cluster: quantum cluster structures and the dual canonical basis}},
author = {Jian-Rong Li and Michael Oren Perlstein and Ran J. Tessler},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.31655},
eprint = {2610.31655},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31655},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Plabic promotions beyond cluster: quantum cluster structures and the dual canonical basis
AU - Jian-Rong Li
AU - Michael Oren Perlstein
AU - Ran J. Tessler
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/24
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.31655
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31655
AB - Plabic tangles define geometric promotion maps between configurations and, after choosing a lift, between Grassmannians. The main conjecture in \cite{Tangles} is that when the tangle is dominant and solvable the induced algebraic promotion is cluster quasi-homomorphism. This work extends the cluster perspective in two directions. First, we initiate the study of quantum promotions. We conjecture that all promotions defined from dominant solvable tangles are naturally lifted to a \emph{quantum cluster quasi homomorphism}, and prove for all cases in the literature that the were shown to be (classical) cluster quasi-homomorphisms. Secondly, we define the notion of cluster-Lusztig quasi-homomorphisms, which are cluster quasi homomorphisms that take Lustig's dual canonical basis elements to dual canonical basis element, up to a Laurent monomial in frozen variables, with clearing and normalization chosen uniformly on each content component. We prove the unexpected result that the classical and quantum m-unary star promotions fall into this category, and conjecture that all promotions coming from dominant solvable tangles share the same property. We then consider promotions via non solvable cores of intersection number higher than one. We use it to study facets of amplituhedron cells, and to show that some of them do not lie in zero loci of dual canonical basis elements, disproving a conjecture by T. Lam \cite{LamGP}.
ER -