The symplectic (A-infinity,2)-category and a simplicial version of the 2D Fulton-MacPherson operad

Nate Bottman (Max Planck)

03-May-2021, 01:00-02:00 (5 years ago)

Abstract: The symplectic (A-infinity,2)-category Symp, which is currently under construction by myself and my collaborators, is a 2-category-like structure whose objects are symplectic manifolds and where hom(M,N) := Fuk(M^- x N). Symp is a coherent algebraic structure which encodes the functoriality properties of the Fukaya category. This talk will begin with the following question: what can say about the part of Symp that knows only about a single symplectic manifold M, and the diagonal Lagrangian correspondence from M to itself? We expect that the answer to this question should be a chain-level algebraic structure on symplectic cohomology, and in this talk I will present progress toward confirming this. Specifically, I will present a "simplicial version" of the 2-dimensional Fulton-MacPherson operad. If there is time, I will discuss work-in-progress with Felix Janda and Paolo Salvatore that aims to complete this answer.

mathematical physicsalgebraic geometrysymplectic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic


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