Maximal green sequences of skew-symmetrizable 3 x 3 matrices

Maximal green sequences are particular sequences of mutations of skew-symmetrizable matrices which were introduced by Keller in the context of quantum dilogarithm identities and independently by Cecotti-Cordova-Vafa in the context of supersymmetric gauge theory. In this paper we study maximal green sequences of skew-symmetrizable 3 x 3 matrices. We show that such a matrix with a mutation-cyclic diagram does not have any maximal green sequence. We also obtain some basic properties of maximal green sequences of skew-symmetrizable matrices with mutation-acyclic diagrams. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.