Uniformly column sign-coherence and the existence of maximal green sequences

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that each matrix in $M_{m\times n}(\mathbb Z_{\geq0})$ is uniformly column sign-coherent with respect to any $n\times n$ skew-symmetrizable integer matrix. Using such matrices, we introduce the definition of irreducible skew-symmatrizable matrix. Based on this, the existence of a maximal green sequence for a skew-symmetrizable matrices is reduced to the existence of a maximal green sequence for irreducible skew-symmetrizable matrices.