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Fukaya categories of Lagrangian cobordisms and duality

Symplectic Geometry 2019-02-05 v1

Abstract

We introduce a new type of duality structure for AA_\infty-categories called a relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing which generalizes Kontsevich and Soibelman's notion of a weak (proper) Calabi-Yau structure. We prove the existence of a relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Biran and Cornea's Fukaya category of Lagrangian cobordisms Fukcob(C×M)\mathcal{F}uk_{\mathit{cob}}(\mathbb{C}\times M). Here MM is a symplectic manifold which is closed or tame at infinity. This duality structure on Fukcob(C×M)\mathcal{F}uk_{\mathit{cob}}(\mathbb{C}\times M) extends the relative Poincar\'e duality satisfied by Floer complexes for pairs of Lagrangian cobordisms. Moreover, we show that the relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Fukcob(C×M)\mathcal{F}uk_{\mathit{cob}}(\mathbb{C}\times M) satisfies a compatibility condition with respect to the usual weak Calabi-Yau structure on the monotone Fukaya category of MM. The construction of the relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Fukcob(C×M)\mathcal{F}uk_{\mathit{cob}}(\mathbb{C}\times M) is based on counts of curves in C×M\mathbb{C}\times M satisfying an inhomogeneous nonlinear Cauchy-Riemann equation. In order to prove the existence of this duality structure and to verify its properties, we extend the methods of Biran and Cornea to establish regularity and compactness results for the relevant moduli spaces. We also consider the implications of the existence of the relative weak Calabi-Yau pairing on Fukcob(C×M)\mathcal{F}uk_{\mathit{cob}}(\mathbb{C}\times M) for the cone decomposition in the derived Fukaya category of MM associated to a Lagrangian cobordism, and we present an example involving Lagrangian surgery.

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@article{arxiv.1902.00930,
  title  = {Fukaya categories of Lagrangian cobordisms and duality},
  author = {Emily Campling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00930},
  year   = {2019}
}

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PhD thesis, University of Montreal, 98 pages