Some new categorical invariants
Abstract
We introduce several notions and give examples. We prove that for , where is -Kronecker quiver. This is an example of SOD, where . This example suggest a new notion of a norm, strictly increasing on . To a triangulated category which has property of a phase gap we attach a non-negative number . Natural assumptions on a SOD imply . 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 ensures that . Viewing as a non-commutative curve, we observe that it is reasonable to count non-commutative curves in any category in a small neighborhood of . 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 . 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1602.09117,
title = {Some new categorical invariants},
author = {George Dimitrov and Ludmil Katzarkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.09117},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
v3 is a new paper with new title, which subsumes the second version v2