Open-closed maps and spectral local systems
Abstract
Let be a graded Liouville domain. Fix a pair of infinite loop spaces living over . This determines a spectral Fukaya category whenever lifts to , containing closed exact Lagrangians for which lifts compatibly to ; and by Bott periodicity and index theory, a Thom spectrum with bordism theory . This paper has two main goals: we incorporate rank one spectral local systems into the spectral category; and we prove that the bordism class defined by the open-closed map differs from the class by a multiplicative two-torsion element in determined by an action of the stable homotopy class of the Hopf map on . Methods include a twisting construction associating flow categories to spectral local systems, and a model for the open-closed map incorporating Schlichtkrull's construction of the trace map . The companion paper \cite{PS4} shows that (for Lagrangians which themselves admit spectral lifts) one can lift quasi-isomorphisms from to at the cost of introducing rank one local systems. Together with the open-closed computation given here, this gives an essentially complete picture of the bordism-theoretic consequences of quasi-isomorphism in the classical exact Fukaya category.
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@article{arxiv.2509.21483,
title = {Open-closed maps and spectral local systems},
author = {Noah Porcelli and Ivan Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.21483},
year = {2026}
}
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