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Zachary Sylvan

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arXiv2025

Localization and flexibilization in symplectic geometry

We introduce the critical Weinstein infinity-category -- the result of stabilizing the category of Weinstein sectors and inverting subcritical morphisms -- and for every finite collection P of integers, construct a P-flexibilization endofunctor. Our main result is that P-flexibilization is an idempotent localization functor of the critical Weinstein infinity-category, allowing us to characterize the essential image of the endofunctor by a universal property. This localization has the effect of replacing every Weinstein sector with one in which P is invertible in the wrapped Fukaya category and hence is a symplectic analogue of topological localization of Bousfield and Sullivan, answering a question of Abouzaid and Seidel. When P = {0}, our construction recovers Cieliebak and Eliashberg's flexibilization procedure. Moreover, we show that P-flexibilization is symmetric monoidal as a functor of higher categories, and hence gives rise to a new way of constructing E-infinity-commutative algebra objects from symplectic geometry.

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arXiv2022

The infinity-category of stabilized Liouville sectors

We prove the surprising fact that the infinity-category of stabilized Liouville sectors is a localization of an ordinary category of stabilized Liouville sectors and strict sectorial embeddings. From the perspective of homotopy theory, this result continues a trend of realizing geometrically meaningful mapping spaces through the categorically formal process of localizing. From the symplectic viewpoint, these results allow us to reduce highly non-trivial coherence results to much simpler verifications. For example, we prove that the wrapped Fukaya category is coherently functorial on stabilized Liouville sectors: Not only does a wrapped category receive a coherent action from stabilized automorphism spaces of a Liouville sector, spaces of sectorial embeddings map to spaces of functors between wrapped categories in a way respecting composition actions. As a consequence, we observe that wrapped Floer theory for sectors works in families. As we will explain, our methods immediately establish such coherence results for most known sectorial invariants, including Lagrangian cobordisms. As another application, we show that this infinity-category admits a symmetric monoidal structure, given by direct product of underlying sectors. The existence of this structure relies on a computation--familiar from the foundations of factorization homology--that localizations detect certain isotopies of smooth manifolds. Moreover, we characterize the symmetric monoidal structure using a universal property, again producing a simple-as-possible criterion for verifying whether invariants are both continuously and multiplicatively coherent in a compatible way.

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arXiv2021

Homological Mirror Symmetry for local SYZ singularities

Gross and Siebert identified a class of singular Lagrangian torus fibrations which arise when smoothing toroidal degenerations, and which come in pairs that are related by mirror symmetry. We identify an immersed Lagrangian in each of these local models which supports a moduli space of objects that is isomorphic to the mirror space, and prove a homological mirror statement along the way.

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arXiv2020

Prime-localized Weinstein subdomains

For any high-dimensional Weinstein domain and finite collection of primes, we construct a Weinstein subdomain whose wrapped Fukaya category is a localization of the original wrapped Fukaya category away from the given primes. When the original domain is a cotangent bundle, these subdomains form a decreasing lattice whose order cannot be reversed. Furthermore, we classify the possible wrapped Fukaya categories of Weinstein subdomains of a cotangent bundle of a simply connected, spin manifold, showing that they all coincide with one of these prime localizations. In the process, we describe which twisted complexes in the wrapped Fukaya category of a cotangent bundle of a sphere are isomorphic to genuine Lagrangians.

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arXiv2019

Orlov and Viterbo functors in partially wrapped Fukaya categories

We study two functors between (partially) wrapped Fukaya categories. The first is the Orlov functor from the Fukaya category of a stop to the Fukaya category of the ambient sector. We give a geometric criterion for when this functor is spherical in the sense of Anno-Logvinenko. This criterion is a generalization of the situation where the stop comes from a Landau-Ginzburg model. The second functor is the Viterbo transfer map from a Liouville domain to a subdomain. We show that when the domain and subdomain are independently Weinstein, this functor is a homological epimorphism, which means that it becomes a localization after passing to module categories. This should be compared with a result of Ganatra-Pardon-Shende, which states that the Viterbo map is a genuine localization when the cobordism is Weinstein.

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arXiv2019

On partially wrapped Fukaya categories

We define a new class of symplectic objects called "stops", which roughly speaking are Liouville hypersurfaces in the boundary of a Liouville domain. Locally, these can be viewed as pages of a compatible open book. To a Liouville domain with a collection of disjoint stops, we assign an $A_\infty$-category called its partially wrapped Fukaya category. An exact Landau-Ginzburg model gives rise to a stop, and the corresponding partially wrapped Fukaya category is meant to agree with the Fukaya category one is supposed to assign to the Landau-Ginzburg model. As evidence, we prove a formula that relates these partially wrapped Fukaya categories to the wrapped Fukaya category of the underlying Liouville domain. This operation is mirror to removing a divisor. In v2, we also construct continuation functors without cascades, which should be of independent interest.

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