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Julian Holstein

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arXiv2025

Gluing invariants of Donaldson--Thomas type -- Part II: Matrix factorizations

This paper is a follow-up to arXiv:2407.08471. Let $X$ be a a $(-1)$-shifted symplectic derived Deligne--Mumford stack. Thanks to the Darboux lemma of Brav--Bussi--Joyce, $X$ is locally modeled by derived critical loci of a function $f$ on a smooth scheme $U$. In this paper we study the gluing of the locally defined $2$-periodic (big) dg-categories of matrix factorizations $MF^\infty(U,f)$. We show that these come canonically equipped with a structure of a $2$-periodic crystal of categories (\ie an action of the dg-category of $2$-periodic $D$-modules on $X$) compatible with a relative Thom--Sebastiani theorem expressing the equivariance under the action of quadratic bundles. As our main theorem we show that the locally defined categories $MF^\infty(U,f)$ can be glued along $X$ as a sheaf of crystals of 2-periodic dg-categories ``up to isotopy'', under the prescription of orientation data controlled by three obstruction classes. This result generalizes the gluing of the Joyce's perverse sheaf of vanishing cycles and partially answers conjectures by Kontsevich--Soibelman and Toda in motivic Donaldson--Thomas theory.

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arXiv2024

Koszul duality and Calabi-Yau structures

We show that Koszul duality between differential graded categories and pointed curved coalgebras interchanges smooth and proper Calabi-Yau structures. This result is a generalization and conceptual explanation of the following two applications. For a finite-dimensional Lie algebra a smooth Calabi-Yau structure on the universal enveloping algebra is equivalent to a proper Calabi-Yau structure on the Chevalley-Eilenberg chain coalgebra, which exists if and only if Poincare duality is satisfied. For a topological space X having the homotopy type of a finite complex we show an oriented Poincare duality structure (with local coefficients) on X is equivalent to a proper Calabi-Yau structure on the dg coalgebra of chains on X and to a smooth Calabi-Yau structure on the dg algebra of chains on the based loop space of X.

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arXiv2024

Gluing invariants of Donaldson--Thomas type -- Part I: the Darboux stack

Let $X$ be a (-1)-shifted symplectic derived Deligne--Mumford stack. In this paper we introduce the Darboux stack of $X$, parametrizing local presentations of $X$ as a derived critical locus of a function $f$ on a smooth formal scheme $U$. Local invariants such as the Milnor number $\mu_f$, the perverse sheaf of vanishing cycles $\mathsf{P}_{U,f}$ and the category of matrix factorizations $\mathsf{MF}(U,f)$ are naturally defined on the Darboux stack, without ambiguity. The stack of non-degenerate flat quadratic bundles acts on the Darboux stack and our main theorem is the contractibility of the quotient stack when taking a further homotopy quotient identifying isotopic automorphisms. As a corollary we recover the gluing results for vanishing cycles by Brav--Bussi--Dupont--Joyce--Szendr\H oi. In a second part (to appear), we will apply this general mechanism to glue the motives of the locally defined categories of matrix factorizations $\mathsf{MF}(U,f)$ under the prescription of additional orientation data, thus answering positively conjectures by Kontsevich--Soibelman and Toda in motivic Donaldson--Thomas theory.

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arXiv2023

Hochschild cohomology of the second kind: Koszul duality and Morita invariance

We define Hochschild cohomology of the second kind for differential graded (dg) or curved algebras as a derived functor in the twisted derived category, and show that it is invariant under suitable Morita equivalences of the second kind. A bimodule version of Koszul duality is constructed and used to show that Hochschild cohomology of the second kind is preserved under (nonconilpotent) Koszul duality. We show that Hochschild cohomology of the second kind of an algebra often computes the ordinary Hochschild cohomology of geometrically meaningful dg categories. Examples include the category of infinity local systems on a topological space, the bounded derived category of a complex algebraic manifold and the category of matrix factorizations.

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arXiv2023

Enriched Koszul duality for dg categories

It is well-known that the category of small dg categories dgCat, though it is monoidal, does not form a monoidal model category. In this paper we construct a monoidal model structure on the category of pointed curved coalgebras ptdCoa* and show that the Quillen equivalence relating it to dgCat is monoidal. We also show that dgCat is a ptdCoa*-enriched model category. As a consequence, the homotopy category of dgCat is closed monoidal and is equivalent as a closed monoidal category to the homotopy category of ptdCoa*. In particular, this gives a conceptual construction of a derived internal hom in dgCat. As an application we obtain a new description of simplicial mapping spaces in dgCat and a calculation of their homotopy groups in terms of Hochschild cohomology groups, reproducing and slightly generalizing well-known results of Toën. Comparing our approach to Toën's, we also obtain a description of the core of Lurie's dg nerve in terms of the ordinary nerve of a discrete category.

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arXiv2021

Maurer-Cartan moduli and theorems of Riemann-Hilbert type

We study Maurer-Cartan moduli spaces of dg algebras and associated dg categories and show that, while not quasi-isomorphism invariants, they are invariants of strong homotopy type, a natural notion that has not been studied before. We prove, in several different contexts, Schlessinger-Stasheff type theorems comparing the notions of homotopy and gauge equivalence for Maurer-Cartan elements as well as their categorified versions. As an application, we re-prove and generalize Block-Smith's higher Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, and develop its analogue for simplicial complexes and topological spaces.

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arXiv2021

Homotopy theory of monoids and derived localization

We use derived localization of the bar and nerve constructions to provide simple proofs of a number of results in algebraic topology. This includes a recent generalization of Adams' cobar-construction to the non-simply connected case, and a new model for the homotopy theory of connected topological spaces using an infinity category of discrete monoids.

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arXiv2020

Categorical Koszul duality

In this paper we establish Koszul duality between dg categories and a class of curved coalgebras, generalizing the corresponding result for dg algebras and conilpotent curved coalgebras. We show that the normalized chain complex functor transforms the Quillen equivalence between quasicategories and simplicial categories into this Koszul duality. This allows us to give a conceptual interpretation of the dg nerve of a dg category and its adjoint. As an application, we prove that the category of representations of a quasicategory is equivalent to the coderived category of comodules over its chain coalgebra. A corollary of this is a characterization of the category of constructible dg sheaves on a stratified space as the coderived category of a certain dg coalgebra.

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arXiv2018

Analytification of mapping stacks

Derived mapping stacks are a fundamental source of examples of derived enhancements of classical moduli problems. For instance, they appear naturally in Gromov-Witten theory and in some branches of geometric representation theory. In this paper, we show that in many cases the mapping stacks construction commutes with the (complex or non-archimedean) analytification functor. Along the way, we establish several properties of the stack of analytic perfect complexes and study some incarnations of analytic Tannaka duality.

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