DG categories and derived moduli spaces
Speaker:
Christopher Brav, Higher School of Economics
Date and Time:
Friday, June 22, 2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We discuss non-commutative algebraic geometry in terms of differential graded (DG) categories, thought of as categories of sheaves on non-commutative spaces. We focus particularly on the Hochschild complex of a DG category with its natural S^1-action as the analogue of the de Rham complex with its de Rham differential, and discuss the Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg theorem which makes precise the relation between Hochschild chains and the de Rham complex. Finally, we explain how negative cylic chains/S^1-invariant chains in the Hochschild complex give rise to closed differential forms on the `moduli space of objects’ in a DG category.