Categorical smooth compactifications and generalized Hodge-to-de Rham degeneration (Q2208429)

The purpose of this interesting paper is to disprove several conjectures about the map from Hochschild homology to periodic cyclic homology for DG (differential graded) algebras and categories. This map may be viewed as a noncommutative analogue of the Hodge-to-de Rham spectral sequence for algebraic varieties. A theorem of \textit{D. Kaledin} [Prog. Math. 324, 99--129 (2017; Zbl 1390.14011)] shows that, just as for proper varieties over a field of characteristic \(0\), the Hochschild to periodic cyclic spectral sequence degenerates for homologically smooth and proper DG algebras over a field of characteristic \(0\). The question remained about whether some remnant of this result holds for DG categories which are either smooth or proper but not both, and this paper basically says that the answer is ``no.'' More specifically, there is a homotopically finitely presented DG category (over a field) that is not Morita equivalent to a quotient of a smooth and proper DG category by a full subcategory, and there is a proper DG algebra \(B\) such that the DG category \(\text{Perf}(B)\) cannot be fully faithfully embedded into a saturated DG category. These results can be interpreted as saying that there is no good analogue of resolution of singularities for proper DG algebras.