Calabi-Yau properties of Postnikov diagrams

Abstract

We show that the dimer algebra of a connected Postnikov diagram in the disc is bimodule internally 3-Calabi-Yau in the sense of the author's earlier work. As a consequence, we obtain an additive categorification of the cluster algebra associated to the diagram, which (after inverting frozen variables) is isomorphic to the homogeneous coordinate ring of a positroid variety in the Grassmannian by a recent result of Galashin and Lam. We show that our categorification can be realised as a full extension closed subcategory of Jensen-King-Su's Grassmannian cluster category, in a way compatible with their bijection between rank 1 modules and Pl\"ucker coordinates.