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A Derived Legendrian Category for Shifted Contact Stacks

Algebraic Geometry 2026-05-26 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We construct the derived Legendrian category Fc(X)\mathcal{F}_{c}(X) for an nn-shifted contact derived Artin stack XX and the (,2)(\infty,2)-category LegnLeg_n of Legendrian correspondences in the context of derived algebraic geometry, with several applications to moduli theory. In brief, the objects of the category Fc(X)\mathcal{F}_{c}(X) are Legendrian morphisms; the morphism spaces and composition operations are defined using equivariant descent. We also establish that Fc(X)\mathcal{F}_{c}(X) embeds into an (,2)(\infty, 2)-category of spans defined by the AKSZ construction. We further evaluate topological cobordisms as Lagrangian correspondences to define derived Legendrian surgery.

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@article{arxiv.2605.13792,
  title  = {A Derived Legendrian Category for Shifted Contact Stacks},
  author = {Efe İzbudak and Kadri İlker Berktav},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13792},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

14 pages, comments are welcome! V2: Section 9.2 revised, minor edits

R2 v1 2026-07-22T07:10:39.979Z