Categorical absorptions of cone singularities
We study Kuznetsov-Shinder's categorical absorption for certain cone singularities, generalizing their results for nodal singularities. In particular, we give explicit descriptions of the endomorphism algebras of tilting objects for categorical absorptions of cones over certain Fano varieties admitting a geometric exceptional sequence, in the sense of Bridgeland and Stern. In the simplest ``split case'', these algebras are truncations of certain Calabi-Yau completions in the sense of Keller. The split case occurs for anticanonical projective cones over many Fano varieties (like projective spaces, smooth quadrics, del Pezzo surfaces of degree greater than $4$, smooth del Pezzo threefolds of degree five, and finite products of these varieties). In general, the algebras are deformations of the split case. As a consequence, we obtain triangle equivalances between singularity categories of finite dimensional algebras and singularity categories of certain cone singularities, which also yields vanishing results in negative $\mathsf{K}$-theory. In a joint appendix with Yujiro Kawamata, we give an explicit description of tilting objects for weighted projective spaces $\mathbb{P}(1^d, m)$.