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A 'Darboux theorem' for derived schemes with shifted symplectic structure

Algebraic Geometry 2018-08-30 v4 Algebraic Topology K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We prove a 'Darboux theorem' for derived schemes with symplectic forms of degree k<0k<0, in the sense of Pantev, Toen, Vaquie and Vezzosi arXiv:1111.3209. More precisely, we show that a derived scheme XX with symplectic form ω\omega of degree kk is locally equivalent to (Spec A,ωA,\omega') for Spec AA an affine derived scheme whose cdga AA has Darboux-like coordinates in which the symplectic form ω\omega' is standard, and the differential in AA is given by Poisson bracket with a Hamiltonian function HH in AA of degree k+1k+1. When k=1k=-1, this implies that a 1-1-shifted symplectic derived scheme (X,ω)(X,\omega) is Zariski locally equivalent to the derived critical locus Crit(H)(H) of a regular function H:UA1H:U\to{\mathbb A}^1 on a smooth scheme UU. We use this to show that the underlying classical scheme of XX has the structure of an 'algebraic d-critical locus', in the sense of Joyce arXiv:1304.4508. In the sequels arXiv:1211.3259, arXiv:1305.6428, arXiv:1312.0090, arXiv:1504.00690, 1506.04024 we will discuss applications of these results to categorified and motivic Donaldson-Thomas theory of Calabi-Yau 3-folds, and to defining new Donaldson-Thomas type invariants of Calabi-Yau 4-folds, and to defining 'Fukaya categories' of Lagrangians in algebraic symplectic manifolds using perverse sheaves, and we will extend the results of this paper and arXiv:1211.3259, arXiv:1305.6428 from (derived) schemes to (derived) Artin stacks, and to give local descriptions of Lagrangians in kk-shifted symplectic derived schemes. Bouaziz and Grojnowski arXiv:1309.2197 independently prove a similar 'Darboux Theorem'.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6302,
  title  = {A 'Darboux theorem' for derived schemes with shifted symplectic structure},
  author = {Christopher Brav and Vittoria Bussi and Dominic Joyce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6302},
  year   = {2018}
}

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54 pages. (v4) Final version to appear in Journal of the AMS

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