Extension bundle vs. Lagrangian connection sum [048Q]
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Extension bundle vs. Lagrangian connection sum
An essential aspect of is that new bundles can be constructed from extensions of known bundles , namely
Such extension sequences are classified by the complex vector space . Due to the -scaling, the choice of is parametrised by the projective space . In general, extensions are not symmetric in and . The extensions
are classified by , which is a quite different space. Extensions can also be viewed as distinguished triangles in .
In the mirror picture, exact sequences do not make a priori sense, but one can talk about distinguished triangles, whose geometric sources are the graded Lagrangian connected sums , fitting into a distinguished triangle
Such distinguished triangles are classified by .3232 32 The caveat is that unlike bundles, the neck length of the Lagrangian connected sum cannot be arbitrarily large. Again there is a scaling symmetry related to the neck size of the Lagrangian connected sum, and there is an asymmetry between and .
This analogy is a prime example of homological mirror symmetry. On either side, only pure complex geometry/pure symplectic geometry appears.