A Derived Legendrian Category for Shifted Contact Stacks

Abstract

We construct the derived Legendrian category $\mathcal{F}_{c}(X)$ for an $n$-shifted contact derived Artin stack $X$ and the $(\infty,2)$-category $Leg_n$ of Legendrian correspondences in the context of derived algebraic geometry, with several applications to moduli theory. In brief, the objects of the category $\mathcal{F}_{c}(X)$ are Legendrian morphisms; the morphism spaces and composition operations are defined using equivariant descent. We also establish that $\mathcal{F}_{c}(X)$ embeds into an $(\infty, 2)$-category of spans defined by the AKSZ construction. We further evaluate topological cobordisms as Lagrangian correspondences to define derived Legendrian surgery.