BGP-reflection functors and cluster combinatorics

We define Bernstein–Gelfand–Ponomarev reflection functors in the cluster categories of hereditary algebras. They are triangle equivalences which provide a natural quiver realization of the “truncated simple reflections” on the set of almost positive roots Φ≥−1Φ≥−1 associated with a finite dimensional semi-simple Lie algebra. Combining this with the tilting theory in cluster categories developed in [A. Buan, R. Marsh, M. Reineke, I. Reiten, G. Todorov, Tilting theory and cluster combinatorics, Adv. Math. (in press). math.RT/0402054], we give a unified interpretation via quiver representations for the generalized associahedra associated with the root systems of all Dynkin types (simply laced or non-simply laced). This confirms the Conjecture 9.1 in [A. Buan, R. Marsh, M. Reineke, I. Reiten, G. Todorov, Tilting theory and cluster combinatorics, Adv. Math. (in press). math.RT/0402054] for all Dynkin types.