Triangulated surfaces in triangulated categories (Q1644002)

For a triangulated category \(\mathcal{A}\) with a \(2\)-periodic dg-enhancement and a triangulated oriented marked surface \(S\), the authors introduce a dg-category \(\mathcal{F}(S, A)\) parametrizing systems of exact triangles in \(\mathcal{A}\) labelled by triangles of \(S\). The main result is that \(\mathcal{F}(S, A)\) is independent of the choice of a triangulation of \(S\) up to essentially unique Morita equivalence. In particular, it admits a canonical action of the mapping class group. The proof is based on general properties of cyclic \(2\)-Segal spaces. In the simplest case, where \(\mathcal{A}\) is the category of \(2\)-periodic complexes of vector spaces, \(\mathcal{F}(S, A)\) turns out to be a purely topological model for the Fukaya category of the surface \(S\). Therefore, the construction can be seen as implementing a \(2\)-dimensional instance of Kontsevich's program of localizing the Fukaya category along a singular Lagrangian spine.