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Spectral Floer theory and tangential structures

Symplectic Geometry 2025-08-06 v3 Algebraic Topology K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

In \cite{PS}, for a stably framed Liouville manifold XX we defined a Donaldson-Fukaya category F(X;S)\mathcal{F}(X;\mathbb{S}) over the sphere spectrum, and developed an obstruction theory for lifting quasi-isomorphisms from F(X;Z)\mathcal{F}(X;\mathbb{Z}) to F(X;S)\mathcal{F}(X;\mathbb{S}). Here, we define a spectral Donaldson-Fukaya category for any `graded tangential pair' ΘΦ\Theta \to \Phi of spaces living over BOBUBO \to BU, whose objects are Lagrangians LXL\to X for which the classifying maps of their tangent bundles lift to ΘΦ\Theta \to \Phi. The previous case corresponded to Θ=Φ={pt}\Theta = \Phi = \{\mathrm{pt}\}. We extend our obstruction theory to this setting. The flexibility to `tune' the choice of Θ\Theta and Φ\Phi increases the range of cases in which one can kill the obstructions, with applications to bordism classes of Lagrangian embeddings in the corresponding bordism theory Ω(Θ,Φ),\Omega^{(\Theta,\Phi),\circ}_*. We include a self-contained discussion of when (exact) spectral Floer theory over a ring spectrum RR should exist, which may be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2411.03257,
  title  = {Spectral Floer theory and tangential structures},
  author = {Noah Porcelli and Ivan Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03257},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Comments welcome! v3: Accepted version, incorporates referee's comments and suggestions

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