%0 Journal Article %T Friezes, Strings and Cluster Variables %A Ibrahim Assem %A Gr¨¦goire Dupont %A Ralf Schiffler %A David Smith %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X To any walk in a quiver, we associate a Laurent polynomial. When the walk is the string of a string module over a 2-Calabi-Yau tilted algebra, we prove that this Laurent polynomial coincides with the corresponding cluster character of the string module, up to an explicit normalising monomial factor. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3341v2