Spectral Floer theory and tangential structures
Abstract
In \cite{PS}, for a stably framed Liouville manifold we defined a Donaldson-Fukaya category over the sphere spectrum, and developed an obstruction theory for lifting quasi-isomorphisms from to . Here, we define a spectral Donaldson-Fukaya category for any `graded tangential pair' of spaces living over , whose objects are Lagrangians for which the classifying maps of their tangent bundles lift to . The previous case corresponded to . We extend our obstruction theory to this setting. The flexibility to `tune' the choice of and 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 . We include a self-contained discussion of when (exact) spectral Floer theory over a ring spectrum should exist, which may be of independent interest.
Cite
@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