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Matrix factorizations and motivic measures

Algebraic Geometry 2015-06-02 v2 Category Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

This article is the continuation of [LS12]. We use categories of matrix factorizations to define a morphism of rings (= a Landau-Ginzburg motivic measure) from the (motivic) Grothendieck ring of varieties over A1\mathbb{A}^1 to the Grothendieck ring of saturated dg categories (with relations coming from semi-orthogonal decompositions into admissible subcategories). Our Landau-Ginzburg motivic measure is the analog for matrix factorizations of the motivic measure in [BLL04] whose definition involved bounded derived categories of coherent sheaves. On the way we prove smoothness and a Thom-Sebastiani theorem for enhancements of categories of matrix factorizations.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7640,
  title  = {Matrix factorizations and motivic measures},
  author = {Valery A. Lunts and Olaf M. Schnürer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7640},
  year   = {2015}
}

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51 pages, minor improvements

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