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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 P1\mathbb{P}^{1} 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 C\mathbb{C}) recovers the classical homotopy equivalences Ω2(Sp/U)BO×Z\Omega^{2}(Sp/U) \simeq BO\times \mathbb{Z} and Ω2(O/U)BSp×Z\Omega^{2}(O/U) \simeq BSp\times \mathbb{Z}.

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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}
}