Cluster automorphisms and quasi-automorphisms

Abstract

We study the relation between the cluster automorphisms and the quasi-automorphisms of a cluster algebra $\mathcal{A}$. We proof that under some mild condition, satisfied for example by every skew-symmetric cluster algebra, the quasi-automorphism group of $\mathcal{A}$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of the cluster automorphism group of $\mathcal{A}_{triv}$, and the two groups are isomorphic if $\mathcal{A}$ has principal or universal coefficients; here $\mathcal{A}_{triv}$ is the cluster algebra with trivial coefficients obtained from $\mathcal{A}$ by setting all frozen variables equal to the integer 1. We also compute the quasi-automorphism group of all finite type and all skew-symmetric affine type cluster algebras, and show in which types it is isomorphic to the cluster automorphism group of $\mathcal{A}_{triv}$.