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Non-commutative counting invariants and curve complexes

Category Theory 2020-02-24 v4

Abstract

In our previous paper, viewing Db(K(l))D^b(K(l)) as a non-commutative curve, where K(l)K(l) is the Kronecker quiver with ll-arrows, we introduced categorical invariants via counting of non-commutative curves. Roughly, these invariants are sets of subcategories in a given category and their quotients. The non-commutative curve-counting invariants are obtained by restricting the subcategories to be equivalent to Db(K(l))D^b(K(l)). The general definition defines much larger class of invariants and many of them behave properly with respect to fully faithful functors. Here, after recalling the definition, we focus on examples and extend our studies beyond counting. We enrich our invariants with structures: the inclusion of subcategories makes them partially ordered sets, and considering semi-orthogonal pairs of subcategories as edges amount to directed graphs. In addition to computing the non-commutative curve-counting invariants in Db(Q)D^b(Q) for two affine quivers, for An A_n and D4D_4 we derive formulas for counting of the subcategories of type Db(Ak)D^b(A_k) in Db(An)D^b(A_n), whereas for the two affine quivers and for D4D_4 we determine and count all generated by an exceptional collection subcategories. Estimating the numbers counting non-commutative curves in Db(P2)D^b({\mathbb P}^2) modulo group action we prove finiteness and that an exact determining of these numbers leads to proving (or disproving) of Markov conjecture. Regarding the mentioned structure of a partially ordered set we initiate intersection theory of non-commutative curves. Via the structure of a directed graph we build an analogue to the classical curve complex used in Teichmueller and Thurston theory. The paper contains many pictures of graphs and presents an approach to Markov Conjecture via counting of subgraphs in a graph associated with Db(P2)D^b(P^2). Some of the results proved here were announced in the previous work.

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@article{arxiv.1805.00294,
  title  = {Non-commutative counting invariants and curve complexes},
  author = {George Dimitrov and Ludmil Katzarkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00294},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

In v4, 65 pages, we have reorganized the paper and removed some inaccuracies. Sections 2 to 7 are dedicated to general theory and then follow sections with examples. In the previous version the letter $\mathcal J$ in the definition of $C_{\mathcal J, P}(\mathcal T)$ was a set of non-trivial pairwise non-equivalent triangulated categories. Now we remove the restriction of non-triviality

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