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Publications and source records attributed to Vivek Shende.
To any open subset of a cotangent bundle, Tamarkin has associated a certain quotient of a category of sheaves. Here we show that the Hochschild cohomology of this category agrees with filtered symplectic cohomology.
Fix a non-stacky component of the moduli of stable Higgs bundles, on which the Hitchin fibration is proper. We show that any smooth Hitchin fiber determines a microsheaf on the global nilpotent cone, that distinct fibers give rise to orthogonal microsheaves, and that the endomorphisms of the microsheaf is isomorphic to the cohomology of the Hitchin fiber. These results are consequences of recent advances in Floer theory. Natural constructions on our microsheaves provide plausible candidates for Hecke eigensheaves for the geometric Langlands correspondence.
We count holomorphic curves in complex 3-space with boundaries on three special Lagrangian solid tori. The count is valued in the HOMFLYPT skein module of the union of the tori. Using 1-parameter families of curves at infinity, we derive three skein valued operator equations which must annihilate the count, and which dequantize to a mirror of the geometry. We show algebraically that the resulting equations determine the count uniquely, and that the result agrees with the topological vertex from topological string theory.
Under certain hypotheses, we show that Legendrian surfaces related by disk surgery will have q-deformed augmentation spaces that are related by q-deformed cluster transformation. The proof is geometric, via considerations of moduli of holomorphic curves. In fact, our results naturally give a more general HOMFLYPT "skein-valued cluster transformation", of which the q-cluster transformation is the U(1) specialization. We apply our methods to the Legendrians associated to cubic planar graphs, where mutation of graphs lifts to Legendrian disk surgery. We show that their skein-valued mirrors transform by skein-valued cluster transformation, and give a formula for the skein-valued curve counts on their fillings.
For a certain class of Legendrian surfaces in the five-sphere, associated to cubic planar graphs, we show that the all-genus skein-valued holomorphic curve invariants of any filling are annihilated by certain explicit skein-valued operator equations.
The central fiber of a Gross-Siebert type toric degeneration is known to satisfy homological mirror symmetry: its category of coherent sheaves is equivalent to the wrapped Fukaya category of a certain exact symplectic manifold. Here we show that, in the Calabi-Yau case, the images of line bundles are represented by Lagrangian spheres.
Homology theories categorifying quantum group link invariants are known to be governed by the representation theory of quiver Hecke algebras, also called KLRW algebras. Here we show that certain cylindrical KLRW algebras, relevant in particular for cylindrical generalizations of link homology theories, can be realized by Lagrangian Floer homology in multiplicative Coulomb branches. This confirms a homological mirror symmetry prediction of the first author.
We develop a local-to-global formalism for constructing Calabi-Yau structures for global sections of constructible sheaves or cosheaves of categories. The required data - an isomorphism of the sheafified Hochschild homology with the topological dualizing sheaf - specializes to the classical notion of orientation when applied to the category of local systems on a manifold. We apply this construction to the cosheaves on arboreal skeleta arising in the microlocal approach to the A-model.
We give a `Fukaya category commutes with reduction' theorem for the Hamiltonian torus action on a multiplicative hypertoric variety.
The Nadler--Zaslow correspondence famously identifies the finite-dimensional Floer homology groups between Lagrangians in cotangent bundles with the finite-dimensional Hom spaces between corresponding constructible sheaves. We generalize this correspondence to incorporate the infinite-dimensional spaces of morphisms 'at infinity', given on the Floer side by Reeb trajectories (also known as "wrapping") and on the sheaf side by allowing unbounded infinite rank sheaves which are categorically compact. When combined with existing sheaf theoretic computations, our results confirm many new instances of homological mirror symmetry. More precisely, given a real analytic manifold $M$ and a subanalytic isotropic subset $Λ$ of its co-sphere bundle $S^*M$, we show that the partially wrapped Fukaya category of $T^*M$ stopped at $Λ$ is equivalent to the category of compact objects in the unbounded derived category of sheaves on $M$ with microsupport inside $Λ$. By an embedding trick, we also deduce a sheaf theoretic description of the wrapped Fukaya category of any Weinstein sector admitting a stable polarization.
We develop a set of tools for doing computations in and of (partially) wrapped Fukaya categories. In particular, we prove (1) a descent (cosheaf) property for the wrapped Fukaya category with respect to so-called Weinstein sectorial coverings and (2) that the partially wrapped Fukaya category of a Weinstein manifold with respect to a mostly Legendrian stop is generated by the cocores of the critical handles and the linking disks to the stop. We also prove (3) a `stop removal equals localization' result, and (4) that the Fukaya--Seidel category of a Lefschetz fibration with Liouville fiber is generated by the Lefschetz thimbles. These results are derived from three main ingredients, also of independent use: (5) a Künneth formula (6) an exact triangle in the Fukaya category associated to wrapping a Lagrangian through a Legendrian stop at infinity and (7) a geometric criterion for when a pushforward functor between wrapped Fukaya categories of Liouville sectors is fully faithful.
The spectral side of the (conjectural) Betti geometric Langlands correspondence concerns sheaves on the character stack of an algebraic curve; in particular, the categories in question are manifestly invariant under deformations of the curve. By contrast the same invariance is certainly not manifest, and is presently not known, for their automorphic counterparts, in particular because the singularities of the global nilpotent cone may vary significantly with the complex structure of the curve. Here we establish the corresponding invariance statement for the category of microsheaves on the open subset of stable Higgs bundles on nonstacky components where all semistables are stable, e.g. for coprime rank and degree or for a punctured curve with generic parabolic weights. The proof uses the known global symplectic geometry of the Higgs moduli space to invoke recent results on the invariance of microlocal sheaves.
When a Gromov limit of embedded holomorphic curves is constant on some component of the domain, the non-collapsed component must exhibit some degenerate behavior at the attaching points, such as high multiplicity or vanishing of the holomorphic derivative. Here we show the same holds for maps which are only approximately J-holomorphic.
To a graph, Hausel and Proudfoot associate two complex manifolds, B and D, which behave, respectively like moduli of local systems on a Riemann surface, and moduli of Higgs bundles. For instance, B is a moduli space of microlocal sheaves, which generalize local systems, and D carries the structure of a complex integrable system. We show the Euler characteristics of these varieties count spanning subtrees of the graph, and the point-count over a finite field for B is a generating polynomial for spanning subgraphs. This polynomial satisfies a deletion-contraction relation, which we lift to a deletion-contraction exact triangle for the cohomology of B. There is a corresponding triangle for D. Finally, we prove B and D are diffeomorphic, that the diffeomorphism carries the weight filtration on the cohomology of B to the perverse Leray filtration on the cohomology of D, and that all these structures are compatible with the deletion-contraction triangles.
A typical large complex-structure limit for mirror symmetry consists of toric varieties glued to each other along their toric boundaries. Here we construct the mirror large volume limit space as a Weinstein symplectic manifold. We prove homological mirror symmetry: the category of coherent sheaves on the first space is equivalent to the Fukaya category of the second. Our equivalence intertwines the Viterbo restriction maps for a generalized pair-of-pants cover of the symplectic manifold with the restriction of coherent sheaves for a certain affine cover of the algebraic variety. We deduce a posteriori a local-to-global principle conjectured by Seidel -- certain diagrams of Viterbo restrictions are cartesian -- by passing Zariski descent through our mirror symmetry result.
The Cox construction presents a toric variety as a quotient of affine space by a torus. The category of coherent sheaves on the corresponding stack thus has an evident description as invariants in a quotient of the category of modules over a polynomial ring. Here we give the mirror to this description, and in particular, a clean new proof of mirror symmetry for smooth toric stacks.
We show that the category of coherent sheaves on the toric boundary divisor of a smooth quasiprojective toric DM stack is equivalent to the wrapped Fukaya category of a hypersurface in a complex torus. Hypersurfaces with every Newton polytope can be obtained. Our proof has the following ingredients. Using recent results on localization, we may trade wrapped Fukaya categories for microlocal sheaf theory along the skeleton of the hypersurface. Using Mikhalkin-Viro patchworking, we identify the skeleton of the hypersurface with the boundary of the Fang-Liu-Treumann-Zaslow skeleton. By proving a new functoriality result for Bondal's coherent-constructible correspondence, we reduce the sheaf calculation to Kuwagaki's recent theorem on mirror symmetry for toric varieties.
How does one measure the failure of Hochschild homology to commute with colimits? Here I relate this question to a major open problem about dynamics in contact manifolds -- the assertion that Reeb orbits exist and are detected by symplectic homology. More precisely, I show that for polarizably Weinstein fillable contact manifolds, said property is equivalent to the failure of Hochschild homology to commute with certain colimits of representation categories of tree quivers. So as to be intelligible to algebraists, I try to include or black-box as much of the geometric background as possible.