Subquivers of mutation-acyclic quivers are mutation-acyclic

Abstract

Quiver mutation plays a crucial role in the definition of cluster algebras by Fomin and Zelevinsky. It induces an equivalence relation on the set of all quivers without loops and two-cycles. A quiver is called mutation-acyclic if it is mutation-equivalent to an acyclic quiver. This note gives a proof that full subquivers of mutation-acyclic quivers are mutation-acyclic.