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Existence of an infinitely mutable potential yielding spherical generation for every quiver

Determine whether for every finite quiver Q there exists at least one infinitely mutable potential W such that the Kontsevich–Soibelman critical cohomological Hall algebra Coha_{Q,W} is spherically generated, i.e., generated by the degree-one pieces corresponding to the simple dimension vectors.

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Background

After presenting counterexamples to conjectures asserting spherical generation and W-independence for all infinitely mutable potentials, the paper proposes a weakened, existence-type modification. Rather than requiring spherical generation for every infinitely mutable potential, the modified goal is to find, for each quiver, at least one infinitely mutable potential that yields a spherically generated CoHA.

The authors indicate that Proposition 3.4 (on quasihomogeneous potentials and equality of graded dimensions with S_Q) provides a practical tool to paper this question and potentially verify spherical generation by comparing partition functions and graded dimensions.

References

More generally, an interesting modification of the conjecture in \S 2.1 would be that for every quiver there exists at least one infinitely mutable potential for which the CoHA is spherically generated.

The generic Markov CoHA is not spherically generated (2502.05009 - Davison, 7 Feb 2025) in Section 3.3 (Dependence on W)