Generalised Friezes and a Modified Caldero-chapoton Map Depending on a Rigid Object

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 in [6].