Semiregularity as a consequence of Goodwillie's theorem

We realise Buchweitz and Flenner's semiregularity map (and hence a fortiori Bloch's semiregularity map) for a smooth variety X as the tangent of generalised Abel-Jacobi map on the derived moduli stack of perfect complexes on X. The target of this map is an analogue of Deligne cohomology defined in terms of cyclic homology, and Goodwillie's theorem on nilpotent ideals ensures that it has the desired tangent space (a truncated de Rham complex). Immediate consequences are the semiregularity conjectures: that the semiregularity maps annihilate all obstructions, and that if X is deformed, semiregularity measures the failure of the Chern character to remain a Hodge class. This gives rise to reduced obstruction theories of the type featuring in the study of reduced Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas Pandharipande-Thomas invariants.Comment: 13 pages, supersedes arXiv:1112.6001; v2 notational changes and minor correction

Quantisation of derived Lagrangians

We investigate quantisations of line bundles $\mathcal{L}$ on derived Lagrangians $X$ over $0$-shifted symplectic derived Artin $N$-stacks $Y$. In our derived setting, a deformation quantisation consists of a curved $A_{\infty}$ deformation of the structure sheaf $\mathcal{O}_{Y}$, equipped with a curved $A_{\infty}$ morphism to the ring of differential operators on $\mathcal{L}$; for line bundles on smooth Lagrangian subvarieties of smooth symplectic algebraic varieties, this simplifies to deforming $(\mathcal{L}, \mathcal{O}_{Y})$ to a DQ module over a DQ algebroid. For each choice of formality isomorphism between the $E_2$ and $P_2$ operads, we construct a map from the space of non-degenerate quantisations to power series with coefficients in relative cohomology groups of the respective de Rham complexes. When $\mathcal{L}$ is a square root of the dualising line bundle, this leads to an equivalence between even power series and certain anti-involutive quantisations, ensuring that the deformation quantisations always exist for such line bundles. This gives rise to a likely candidate for the new type of Fukaya category, of algebraic Lagrangians, envisaged by Behrend and Fantechi. We also sketch a generalisation of these quantisation results to Lagrangians on higher $n$-shifted symplectic derived stacks.Comment: 53 pp; v2 minor additions and refs updated; v3 expanded generally, with some new material in final sectio

Presenting higher stacks as simplicial schemes

We show that an n-geometric stack may be regarded as a special kind of simplicial scheme, namely a Duskin n-hypergroupoid in affine schemes, where surjectivity is defined in terms of covering maps, yielding Artin n-stacks, Deligne-Mumford n-stacks and n-schemes as the notion of covering varies. This formulation adapts to all HAG contexts, so in particular works for derived n-stacks (replacing rings with simplicial rings). We exploit this to describe quasi-coherent sheaves and complexes on these stacks, and to draw comparisons with Kontsevich's dg-schemes. As an application, we show how the cotangent complex controls infinitesimal deformations of higher and derived stacks.Comment: 55 pages; v3 content rearranged with many corrections; final version, to appear in Adv. Math; v4 corrections in section 7.

The structure of the pro-l-unipotent fundamental group of a smooth variety

By developing a theory of deformations over nilpotent Lie algebras, based on Schlessinger's deformation theory over Artinian rings, this paper investigates the pro-l-unipotent fundamental group of a variety X. If X is smooth and proper, defined over a finite field, then the Weil conjectures imply that this group is quadratically presented. If X is smooth and non-proper, then the group is defined by equations of bracket length at most four.Comment: 28 pages; v2 minor emendation