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Maxim Kontsevich

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arXiv2020

Pre-Calabi-Yau algebras and noncommutative calculus on higher cyclic Hochschild cohomology

We prove $L_{\infty}$-formality for the higher cyclic Hochschild complex $\chH$ over free associative algebra or path algebra of a quiver. The $\chH$ complex is introduced as an appropriate tool for the definition of pre-Calabi-Yau structure. We show that cohomologies of this complex are pure in case of free algebras (path algebras), concentrated in degree zero. It serves as a main ingredient for the formality proof. For any smooth algebra we choose a small qiso subcomplex in the higher cyclic Hochschild complex, which gives rise to a calculus of highly noncommutative monomials, we call them $ξδ$-monomials. The Lie structure on this subcomplex is combinatorially described in terms of $ξδ$-monomials. This subcomplex and a basis of $ξδ$-monomials in combination with arguments from Groebner bases theory serves for the cohomology calculations of the higher cyclic Hochschild complex. The language of $ξδ$-monomials in particular allows an interpretation of pre-Calabi-Yau structure as a noncommutative Poisson structure.

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arXiv2020

p-Determinants and monodromy of differential operators

We prove that $p$-determinants of a certain class of differential operators can be lifted to power series over $\mathbb{Q}$. We compute these power series in terms of monodromy of the corresponding differential operators.

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arXiv2020

Semistability, modular lattices, and iterated logarithms

We provide a complete description of the asymptotics of the gradient flow on the space of metrics on any semistable quiver representation. This involves a recursive construction of approximate solutions and the appearance of iterated logarithms and a limiting filtration of the representation. The filtration turns out to have an algebraic definition which makes sense in any finite length modular lattice. This is part of a larger project by the authors to study iterated logarithms in the asymptotics of gradient flows, both in finite and infinite dimensional settings.

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arXiv2020

A Generalization of King's Equation via Noncommutative Geometry

We introduce a framework in noncommutative geometry consisting of a $*$-algebra $\mathcal A$, a bimodule $Ω^1$ endowed with a derivation $\mathcal A\to Ω^1$ and with a Hermitian structure $Ω^1\otimes \barΩ^1\to \mathcal A$ (a "noncommutative Kähler form"), and a cyclic 1-cochain $\mathcal A\to \mathbb C$ whose coboundary is determined by the previous structures. These data give moment map equations on the space of connections on an arbitrary finitely-generated projective $\mathcal A$-module. As particular cases, we obtain a large class of equations in algebra (King's equations for representations of quivers, including ADHM equations), in classical gauge theory (Hermitian Yang-Mills equations, Hitchin equations, Bogomolny and Nahm equations, etc.), as well as in noncommutative gauge theory by Connes, Douglas and Schwarz. We also discuss Nekrasov's beautiful proposal for re-interpreting noncommutative instantons on $\mathbb{C}^n\simeq \mathbb{R}^{2n}$ as infinite-dimensional solutions of King's equation $$\sum_{i=1}^n [T_i^\dagger, T_i]=\hbar\cdot n\cdot\mathrm{Id}_{\mathcal H}$$ where $\mathcal H$ is a Hilbert space completion of a finitely-generated $\mathbb C[T_1,\dots,T_n]$-module (e.g. an ideal of finite codimension).

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arXiv2019

Pre-Calabi-Yau algebras and double Poisson brackets

We give an explicit formula showing how the double Poisson algebra introduced in \cite{VdB} appears as a particular part of a pre-Calabi-Yau structure, i.e. cyclically invariant, with respect to the natural inner form, solution of the Maurer-Cartan equation on $A\oplus A^*$. Specific part of this solution is described, which is in one-to-one correspondence with the double Poisson algebra structures. The result holds for any associative algebra $A$ and emphasizes the special role of the fourth component of a pre-Calabi-Yau structure in this respect. As a consequence we have that appropriate pre-Calabi-Yau structures induce a Poisson brackets on representation spaces $({\rm Rep}_n A)^{Gl_n}$ for any associative algebra $A$.

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arXiv2018

Iterated logarithms and gradient flows

We consider applications of the theory of balanced weight filtrations and iterated logarithms, initiated in arXiv:1706.01073, to PDEs. The main result is a complete description of the asymptotics of the Yang--Mills flow on the space of metrics on a holomorphic bundle over a Riemann surface. A key ingredient in the argument is a monotonicity property of the flow which holds in arbitrary dimension. The A-side analog is a modified curve shortening flow for which we provide a heuristic calculation in support of a detailed conjectural picture.

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arXiv2017

Specialization of birational types

We introduce a simplified version of the Grothendieck group of algebraic varieties and use it to show that birational types specialize in families with mild singularities of the central fiber.

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arXiv2017

Lower bounds for Lyapunov exponents of flat bundles on curves

Consider a flat bundle over a complex curve. We prove a conjecture of Fei Yu that the sum of the top k Lyapunov exponents of the flat bundle is always greater or equal to the degree of any rank k holomorphic subbundle. We generalize the original context from Teichmueller curves to any local system over a curve with non-expanding cusp monodromies. As an application we obtain the large genus limits of individual Lyapunov exponents in hyperelliptic strata of Abelian differentials. Understanding the case of equality with the degrees of subbundle coming from the Hodge filtration seems challenging, e.g. for Calabi-Yau type families. We conjecture that equality of the sum of Lyapunov exponents and the degree is related to the monodromy group being a thin subgroup of its Zariski closure.

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arXiv2017

Airy structures and symplectic geometry of topological recursion

We propose a new approach to the topological recursion of Eynard-Orantin based on the notion of Airy structure, which we introduce in the paper. We explain why Airy structure is a more fundamental object than the one of the spectral curve. We explain how the concept of quantization of Airy structure leads naturally to the formulas of topological recursion as well as their generalizations. The notion of spectral curve is also considered in a more general framework of Poisson surfaces endowed with foliation. We explain how the deformation theory of spectral curves is related to Airy structures. Few other topics (e.g. the Holomorphic Anomaly Equation) are also discussed from the general point of view of Airy structures.

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arXiv2016

Canonical bases for cluster algebras

In previous work, the first three authors conjectured that the ring of regular functions on a natural class of affine log Calabi-Yau varieties (those with maximal boundary) has a canonical vector space basis parameterized by the integral tropical points of the mirror. Further, the structure constants for the multiplication rule in this basis should be given by counting broken lines (certain combinatorial objects, morally the tropicalisations of holomorphic discs). Here we prove the conjecture in the case of cluster varieties, where the statement is a more precise form of the Fock-Goncharov dual basis conjecture. In particular, under suitable hypotheses, for each Y the partial compactification of an affine cluster variety U given by allowing some frozen variables to vanish, we obtain canonical bases for the ring of functions on Y extending to a basis for functions on U. Each choice of seed canonically identifies the parameterizing sets of these bases with integral points in a polyhedral cone. These results specialize to basis results of combinatorial representation theory. For example, by considering the open double Bruhat cell U in the basic affine space Y we obtain a canonical basis of each irreducible representation of SL_r, parameterized by a set which each choice of seed identifies with integral points of a lattice polytope. These bases and polytopes are all constructed essentially without representation theoretic considerations. Along the way, our methods prove a number of conjectures in cluster theory, including positivity of the Laurent phenomenon for cluster algebras of geometric type.

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arXiv2015

Flat surfaces and stability structures

We identify spaces of half-translation surfaces, equivalently complex curves with quadratic differential, with spaces of stability structures on Fukaya-type categories of punctured surfaces. This is achieved by new methods involving the complete classification of objects in these categories, which are defined in an elementary way. We also introduce a number of tools to deal with surfaces of infinite area, where structures similar to those in cluster algebra appear.

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arXiv2014

Bogomolov-Tian-Todorov theorems for Landau-Ginzburg models

In this paper we prove the smoothness of the moduli space of Landau-Ginzburg models. We formulate and prove a Tian-Todorov theorem for the deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models, develop the necessary Hodge theory for varieties with potentials, and prove a double degeneration statement needed for the unobstructedness result. We discuss the various definitions of Hodge numbers for non-commutative Hodge structures of Landau-Ginzburg type and the role they play in mirror symmetry. We also interpret the resulting families of de Rham complexes attacted to a potential in terms of mirror symmetry for one parameter families of symplectic Fano manifolds and argue that modulo a natural triviality property the moduli spaces of Landau-Ginzburg models posses canonical special coordinates.

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arXiv2014

Algebra of the infrared and secondary polytopes

We study algebraic structures ($L_\infty$ and $A_\infty$-algebras) introduced by Gaiotto, Moore and Witten in their recent work devoted to certain supersymmetric 2-dimensional massive field theories. We show that such structures can be systematically produced in any number of dimensions by using the geometry of secondary polytopes, esp. their factorization properties. In particular, in 2 dimensions, we produce, out of a polyhedral "coefficient system", a dg-category $R$ with a semi-orthogonal decomposition and an $L_\infty$-algebra $\mathfrak g$. We show that $\mathfrak g$ is quasi-isomorphic to the ordered Hochschild complex of $R$, governing deformations preserving the semi-orthogonal decomposition. This allows us to give a more precise mathematical formulation of the (conjectural) alternative description of the Fukaya-Seidel category of a Kahler manifold endowed with a holomorphic Morse function.

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arXiv2013

Wall-crossing structures in Donaldson-Thomas invariants, integrable systems and Mirror Symmetry

We introduce the notion of Wall-Crossing Structure and discuss it in several examples including complex integrable systems, Donaldson-Thomas invariants and Mirror Symmetry. For a big class of non-compact Calabi-Yau 3-folds we construct complex integrable systems of Hitchin type with the base given by the moduli space of deformations of those 3-folds. Then Donaldson-Thomas invariants of the Fukaya category of such a Calabi-Yau 3-fold can be (conjecturally) described in two more ways: in terms of the attractor flow on the base of the corresponding complex integrable system and in terms of the skeleton of the mirror dual to the total space of the integrable system. The paper also contains a discussion of some material related to the main subject, e.g. Betti model of Hitchin systems with irregular singularities, WKB asymptotics of connections depending on a small parameter, attractor points in the moduli space of complex structures of a compact Calabi-Yau 3-fold, relation to cluster varieties, etc.

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arXiv2013

Dynamical systems and categories

We study questions motivated by results in the classical theory of dynamical systems in the context of triangulated and A-infinity categories. First, entropy is defined for exact endofunctors and computed in a variety of examples. In particular, the classical entropy of a pseudo-Anosov map is recovered from the induced functor on the Fukaya category. Second, the density of the set of phases of a Bridgeland stability condition is studied and a complete answer is given in the case of bounded derived categories of quivers. Certain exceptional pairs in triangulated categories, which we call Kronecker pairs, are used to construct stability conditions with density of phases. Some open questions and further directions are outlined as well.

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