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Some new categorical invariants

Category Theory 2017-11-22 v3 Representation Theory

Abstract

We introduce several notions and give examples. We prove that Stab(Db(K(l)))C×H{\rm Stab}(D^b(K(l)))\cong {\mathbb C}\times \mathcal H for l3l\geq 3, where K(l)K(l) is ll-Kronecker quiver. This is an example of SOD, where Stab(T1,T2)≇Stab(T1)×Stab(T2){\rm Stab}( \langle \mathcal T_1,\mathcal T_2\rangle )\not \cong{\rm Stab}(\mathcal T_1)\times {\rm Stab}(\mathcal T_2). This example suggest a new notion of a norm, strictly increasing on {Db(K(l))}l2\{D^b(K(l))\}_{l\geq 2}. To a triangulated category T\mathcal T which has property of a phase gap we attach a non-negative number Tε\Vert \mathcal T \Vert_{\varepsilon}. Natural assumptions on a SOD imply T1,T2εmax{T1ε,T2ε} \Vert \langle \mathcal T_1,\mathcal T_2\rangle \Vert_{\varepsilon}\geq {\rm max}\{ \Vert \mathcal T_1 \Vert_{\varepsilon}, \Vert\mathcal T_2 \Vert_{\varepsilon}\}. Using this we define a topology on the set of equivalence classes of triangulated categories with a phase gap, where the set of discrete derived categories is a discrete subset and the rationality of a smooth surface SS ensures that [Db(point)]Cl([Db(S)])[D^b(point)] \in {\rm Cl}([D^b(S)]). Viewing Db(K(l))D^b(K(l)) as a non-commutative curve, we observe that it is reasonable to count non-commutative curves in any category in a small neighborhood of Db(K(l))D^b(K(l)). Examples show that this idea (non-commutative curve-counting) opens directions to new categorical structures and connections to number theory and classical geometry. We give a definition, which specializes to the non-commutative curve-counting invariants. In an example arising on the A side we specialize our definition to non-commutative Calabi-Yau curve-counting, where the entities we count are a Calabi-Yau modification of Db(K(l))D^b(K(l)). Finally we speculate that one might consider a holomorphic family of categories, introduced by Kontsevich, as a non-commutative extension with the norm playing a role similar to the classical notion of degree of an extension in Galois theory.

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@article{arxiv.1602.09117,
  title  = {Some new categorical invariants},
  author = {George Dimitrov and Ludmil Katzarkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.09117},
  year   = {2017}
}

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v3 is a new paper with new title, which subsumes the second version v2

R2 v1 2026-06-22T13:00:14.482Z