Based maps to Lagrangian Grassmannians, Quivers, and Bott Periodicity
Algebraic Geometry
2026-07-12 v1 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
We give a quiver description of the space of based algebraic maps from to the Lagrangian Grassmannian (and its orthogonal counterpart). We show our descriptions lead to an algebro-geometric refinement of some of the homotopy equivalences in real Bott periodicity. In particular, we get an isomorphism in Larson and Vakil's ``naive algebro-geometric homotopy category'' whose topological realization (after specializing to ) recovers the classical homotopy equivalences and .
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@article{arxiv.2607.10956,
title = {Based maps to Lagrangian Grassmannians, Quivers, and Bott Periodicity},
author = {Jim Bryan and Ravi Vakil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.10956},
year = {2026}
}