Weighted quivers

Abstract

A "weight" on a quiver $Q$ with values in a group $G$ is a function which assigns an element of $G$ for each arrow in $Q$. This paper shows that the essential steps in the mutation of quivers with potential [DWZ] goes through with weights provided that the weights on each cycle in the potential have trivial product. This gives another proof of the sign coherence of $c$-vectors. We also classify all weights on tame quivers.

11 pages, 2 figures