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5 Fukaya category and its degeneration
5.1 Fukaya category
Fukaya category (of a compact symplectic manifold) in the approach presented here will be in fact an -pre-category. Our definition is not given in the maximal generality, but it will be sufficient for the main application to abelian varieties. For more elaborated definitions see [Fu1], [Ko].
Let be a compact symplectic manifold of dimension , such that . The Fukaya category (with the trivial -field) associated with depends on some additional data, which we are going to describe below.
We fix an almost complex structure compatible with and a smooth everywhere non-vanishing differential form , which is -form with respect to . Let be an oriented Lagrangian submanifold. Then one has a map , where is the argument of the non-zero complex number , and is an oriented basis of .
Definition 16
Objects of the Fukaya category
are triples
, where
is a compact oriented Lagrangian submanifold of
(called the support
of the object), is a
local system on (i.e. a complex vector
bundle with flat connection),
and a continuous
lift of .
We require that for any element , the pairing is equal to zero.
We will sometimes denote the Fukaya category by , or simply by . We will also often omit from the notation the lifted argument function, thus denoting an object simply by .
Let be the field consisting of formal series , such that . In the case when , one can in fact work over the field , where . In general we equip with the adic topology: a fundamental system of neighborhoods of zero consists of sets .
Definition 17
For two objects with transversal supports we define the space of morphisms such as follows
Thus morphisms form a finite-dimensional vector space over the field . There is a -grading of the space of morphisms given in terms of Maslov index (see [Fu2], [Ko], [Se]).
Remark 11
The condition is introduced for convenience only. It helps to avoid the problem with the composition we mentioned before. The condition holds in the case when is a torus with the constant symplectic form, and is a Lagrangian subtorus. This is our main application in present paper. In general there is a way to work with non-trivial , if it is small in the adic topology.
Now we are going to describe the -structure. It is defined by means of a collection of maps (higher compositions) of graded vector spaces , where and the sequence corresponds to a transversal sequence of objects (the latter notion will be defined below).
In the case, when all local systems are trivial of rank one, the map is defined such as follows. Let be a standard disc . Let us fix a sequence of supports of objects with pairwise transversal intersections, intersection points , , and . We denote by the set of collections , where are cyclically ordered pairwise distinct points on the boundary , and a pseudo-holomorphic map such that , . Here denotes the arc between and . There is a natural action of on arising from the holomorphic action on by fractional linear transformations. The action is free except of the case , which is not relevant for our purposes.
Let satisfy the condition . Then the matrix element is given by the formula , where sum is taken over all -orbits of points in . Signs are derived from orientations of certain cycles in the moduli space . We will comment on them below (see [Fu1], [Ko] for more details). In the case of non-trivial local systems there is an additional factor for each summand. It corresponds to the holonomies of local system along the arcs.
Now we will describe the transversality condition. Assume that we are given a sequence of objects of the Fukaya category. We say that they are transversal if the following conditions hold:
1) There are only pairwise intersections , and they are transversal.
2) For any subsequence ,
any choice of intersection points
,
such that
, and any ,
the corresponding component of the moduli space
contains only smooth points, and is zero-dimensional.
3) If then the corresponding component is empty.
Let us comment on these conditions. The first one is needed to define morphisms. The quotient set which appears in the second condition locally can be identified with the space of solutions of a non-linear elliptic problem. For the linearized problem the corresponding Fredholm operator has index . We define smooth points of as such points where the cokernel of the Fredholm operator is trivial. Then is a smooth manifold of the dimension equal to the index. Moreover, one checks that the spaces carry natural orientations given by the determinants of the corresponding Fredholm operators. It follows that in the zero-dimensional case what we get is a set of points with multiplicities (in particular, the multiplicities are integer numbers). Multiple covers and stable maps which appear in the definition of Gromov-Witten invariants and produce non-trivial denominators, do not appear in our framework for the Fukaya category. Therefore one can define the Fukaya category over the ring (the integral version of ). The number of points counted with signs gives a tensor coefficient of .
Composition maps satisfy a system of quadratic equations, thus making into a non-unital -pre-category. One can check that it is in fact an -pre-category. Proof of the extension property is based on the following result of Fukaya (see [Fu2], [Se]).
Proposition 2
Let be an object obtained by a small Hamiltonian deformation of an object of . Then and are quasi-isomorphic.
For example, a sequence consisting of one object can be extended to a transversal sequence . Similarly, one can extend any finite set of transversal sequences.
It is easy to see that the set of connected components of the space of pairs (equipped with the natural topology) is a principal homogeneous space over the lattice . Namely, acts on such as follows: . The following theorem can be derived from [Fu2].
Theorem 1
There exists a set of the second category (in the sense of Baire) in the space of almost complex structures compatible with such that Fukaya categories and are equivalent as long as , and is homotopic to .
Therefore the equivalence class of the Fukaya category depends on the connected component of the space of pairs.
5.2 Fukaya-Oh category for torus fibration
Let be an AK-manifold with integral affine structure. The covariant lattice is denoted by , as before. From now on we will assume that is compact. This is a severe restriction. It was proven in [CY] that in this case a finite cover of space is a torus with the standard affine structure. It appears in the collapse of complex abelian varieties.
The manifold is the total space of the torus bundle . It carries a natural symplectic form induced from the standard one on . We endow with a 1-parameter family of complex structures compatible with . Indeed, the manifold carries a canonical complex structure described before. We identify and by the map , where . Using this identification, we pull back to the complex structure and the metric. The fibers of are flat Lagrangian tori for all values of .
We define on a nowhere vanishing -form such as follows. Let us fix an oriented orthonormal basis in . We define as the -form on , which is invariant with respect to the -action, and is equal to .
Let be a compact oriented Lagrangian submanifold of such that is an unramified covering, and the orientation of is induced from the orientation of . We claim that there is a canonical choice for the function . Indeed, for any point the space of Lagrangian subspaces in , which are transversal to the vertical tangent space is contractible. Let us consider the space of pairs such that and is a Lagrangian subspace, which is transversal to , and endowed with the orientation induced from . Then the function admits a unique continuous lifting , vanishing at . Restricting this function to we obtain .
We will denote by the Fukaya category , and by its full -pre-subcategory with objects such that is a compact Lagrangian submanifold with the orientation induced from , is an unramified covering, and was described above. To simplify the notations we will denote objects of these categories by .
Remark 12
One can check that for transversal Lagrangian submanifolds and as above, the Maslov index at any is equal to the Morse index at of the smooth Morse function such that locally near one has .
It follows from the results of [FuO] that there exists a limit of the family of -pre-categories , in the following sense. Objects and morphisms of do not depend on and remain the same in the limit. The compositions have limits as in the adic topology of . They will be explicitly described below.
The following result can be derived from [FuO].
Proposition 3
The limiting -pre-category is equivalent to for all sufficiently small .
We will denote this -pre-category by and call it the Fukaya-Oh category of (or degenerate Fukaya category of ).
Remark 13
In what follows we will assume that . The case is somewhat different, but also it is much more simple (see for example [P1]). In particular, does not depend on in this case.
As we said before, the objects and morphisms for are the same as for . In order to define the composition map
one uses the standard formulas, but the sum runs over certain two-dimensional surfaces in described below. For a sequence of objects in we consider immersed two-dimensional surfaces such that:
a) Boundary of belongs to .
b) where and are geodesic triangles in fibers of , hence they are projected to points in .
c) Each is a union of 1-parameter families of geodesic intervals contained in fibers of (i.e. a “strip”). Moreover, is a fibration over a connected interval immersed in . Fibers of over the interior points of are geodesic intervals of strictly positive length. Fibers of over the boundary points of are either edges of triangles or intersection points .
d) Intervals are edges of an immersed planar trivalent tree . Points are internal vertices of . Tail vertices of are projections of the intersection points .
e) Let be the natural fiberwise universal covering. If the Lagrangian manifolds are locally given by differentials of smooth functions on , then the edges of must be gradient lines of . Intersection points of and correspond to critical points of .
We depict a typical surface below:
![[Uncaptioned image]](https://arxiv.org/html/math/0011041v1/fig2.2.png)
The projection of surface to is a gradient tree, with tail vertices being critical points of or of , and edges being the gradient lines of functions , where . The triangles are mapped into the internal vertices of the tree. Here is the picture of for surface as above:
![[Uncaptioned image]](https://arxiv.org/html/math/0011041v1/fig2.3.png)
Compositions are given by the standard formulas, but now we are counting surfaces described in a)-d). The weight can be written as , where , and var is the (positive) variation of the function along the gradient line.
The transversality condition for a sequence of objects of Fukaya-Oh category can be formulated similarly to the case of Fukaya category.
The reader can compare our considerations with those from [FuO]. The fibers of are “small” tori (of the size . The base is “large” (of the size of ). Hence, the Lagrangian manifolds are close to the zero section of . This is similar to the situation considered in [FuO]. Indeed, in [FuO] the authors study the -subcategory of (where is an arbitrary smooth compact manifold), with the objects such that , is a smooth function. In other words, they considered Lagrangian sections of the natural projection , which are close to the zero section. When , pseudo-holomorphic discs get “stretched” along the fibers of . Thus they look like the surfaces described above. Then the higher compositions of the Fukaya category “approach” the compositions . This was proved in [FuO] in the case when was replaced by . Considerations from [FuO] apply in our case as well.
Remark 14
One can extend the Fukaya-Oh category considering Lagrangian submanifolds in which are not necessarily unramified coverings of . For example, one can try to add to new objects which are local systems on Lagrangian tori which are fibers of the projection . It seems that with these objects one can go much further than with transversal ones. For example, in the general case of torus fibrations with singular fibers, one can argue that for almost any there is no limiting holomorphic discs with the boundary in the torus . The set of such points is the complement to a countable union of hypersurfaces in (this follows from the fact that ). Thus, we get a large collection of honest objects without the parasitic composition . The total picture seems to be quite intricate, as examples show that the subset is everywhere dense. Presumably, it is related with some mysterious non-abelian -cocycle which we will discuss later in the remark in section 7.1.