Calabi-Yau structures, spherical functors, and shifted symplectic structures (Q2237411)

This paper is concerned to apply methods from derived geometry and higher category theory to the study of Picard-Lefshetz theory. The main results can be roughly summarized as follows. \begin{itemize} \item Compatible spherical functors to a Calabi-Yau category are the uniques admitting a weak relative Calbi-Yau structure. \item The cap functor to the generic fiber of a LG model has a weak relative Clabi-Yau structure. \item The property of having a weak relative Calabi-Yau structure is stable under taking fiber products. \end{itemize} In addition the authors provide a bridge between the weak relative Calabi-Yau structures analyzed in the paper and results on Lagrangian fibrations and the study of shifted symplectic structures in derived algebraic geometry. This is not the place to go more into details. For more details I will urge the interested reader to turn the attention to the paper itself, and to its masterfully written introduction. I would suggest to read this to anyone intending to approach these topics. The author spends four subsection to frame their results in the known literature, clearly mentioning open questions, what is known about their answer, and how their work improves the state of the art. It is truly refreshing, in this era when page cutting seems to be the fashion, to see a paper truly written for all who might be interested in reading it. The paper end also with a section entirely dedicated to further developments of the techniques presented. The authors design a program with applications to algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, and homological mirror symmetry.