Grothendieck-Witt theory of derived schemes
Abstract
We construct a non--invariant motivic ring spectrum over , whose associated cohomology theory on qcqs derived schemes is the Grothendieck-Witt theory of classical symmetric forms (as opposed to homotopy symmetric forms). In particular, we show that this theory satisfies Nisnevich descent, smooth blowup excision, a projective bundle formula, and is locally left Kan extended from smooth -schemes up to Bass delooping. More generally, our construction produces -modules representing localizing invariants of two different families of Poincar\'e structures on derived schemes, which we call "classical" and "genuine"; the latter Poincar\'e structures are defined for spectral schemes with involution, but the former only for derived schemes. We then establish basic properties of these motivic spectra. As in -homotopy theory, the fracture square of with respect to the Hopf element recovers the fundamental cartesian square relating GW-theory, L-theory, and K-theory. A new phenomenon when is not a unit is that is not Bott-periodic, and the left and right Bott periodizations of represent the Grothendieck-Witt theories of homotopy symmetric and homotopy quadratic forms, respectively. We also construct the expected metalinear -orientation of . Finally, we show that the -localization of recovers the motivic spectrum recently constructed by Calm\`es, Harpaz, and Nardin.
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@article{arxiv.2508.08905,
title = {Grothendieck-Witt theory of derived schemes},
author = {Marc Hoyois and Markus Land},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08905},
year = {2025}
}
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34 pages. Comments welcome!