Weyl groups and cluster structures of families of log Calabi-Yau surfaces

Abstract

Given a generic Looijenga pair $(Y,D)$ together with a toric model $\rho:(Y,D)\rightarrow(\overline{Y},\overline{D})$, one can construct a seed ${\bf s}$ such that the corresponding $\mathcal{X}$-cluster variety $\mathcal{X}_{{\bf s}}$ can be viewed as the universal family of the log Calabi-Yau surface $U=Y\setminus D$. In cases where $(Y,D)$ is positive and $\mathcal{X}_{{\bf s}}$ is not acyclic, we describe the action of the Weyl group of $(Y,D)$ on the scattering diagram $\mathfrak{D}_{{\bf s}}$. Moreover, we show that there is a Weyl group element ${\bf w}$ of order $2$ that either agrees with or approximates the Donaldson-Thomas transformation ${\rm DT}_{\mathcal{X}_{{\bf s}}}$ of $\mathcal{X}_{{\bf s}}$. As a corollary, ${\rm DT}_{\mathcal{X}_{{\bf s}}}$ is cluster. In positive non-acyclic cases, we also apply the folding technique as developed in \cite{YZ} and construct a maximally folded new seed $\overline{{\bf s}}$ from ${\bf s}$. The $\mathcal{X}$-cluster variety $\mathcal{X}_{\overline{{\bf s}}}$ is a locally closed subvariety of $\mathcal{X}_{{\bf s}}$ and corresponds to the maximally degenerate subfamily in the universal family. We show that the action of the special Weyl group element ${\bf w}$ on $\mathfrak{D}_{{\bf s}}$ descends to $\mathfrak{D}_{\overline{{\bf s}}}$ and permutes distinct subfans in $\mathfrak{D}_{\overline{{\bf s}}}$ , generalizing the well-known case of the Markov quiver.