Fukaya-Seidel categories of Hilbert schemes and parabolic category \(\mathcal{O}\) (Q2143209)

Summary: We realise Stroppel's extended arc algebra [13, 51] in the Fukaya-Seidel category of a natural Lefschetz fibration on the generic fibre of the adjoint quotient map on a type \(A\) nilpotent slice with two Jordan blocks, and hence obtain a symplectic interpretation of certain parabolic two-block versions of Bernstein-Gel'fand-Gel'fand category \(\mathcal{O}\). As an application, we give a new geometric construction of the spectral sequence from annular to ordinary Khovanov homology. The heart of the paper is the development of a cylindrical model to compute Fukaya categories of (affine open subsets of) Hilbert schemes of quasi-projective surfaces, which may be of independent interest.