Generalised friezes and a modified Caldero-Chapoton map depending on a rigid object

Abstract

The (usual) Caldero-Chapoton map is a map from the set of objects of a category to a Laurent polynomial ring over the integers. In the case of a cluster category, it maps "reachable" indecomposable objects to the corresponding cluster variables in a cluster algebra. This formalises the idea that the cluster category is a "categorification" of the cluster algebra. The definition of the Caldero-Chapoton map requires the category to be 2-Calabi-Yau, and the map depends on a cluster tilting object in the category. We study a modified version of the Caldero-Chapoton map which only requires the category to have a Serre functor, and only depends on a rigid object in the category. It is well-known that the usual Caldero-Chapoton map gives rise to so-called friezes, for instance Conway-Coxeter friezes. We show that the modified Caldero-Chapoton map gives rise to what we call generalised friezes, and that for cluster categories of Dynkin type A, it recovers the generalised friezes introduced by combinatorial means by Bessenrodt and us.