Algebra of the infrared and secondary polytopes (Q304105)

The paper under review was inspired by the paper [\textit{D. Gaiotto} et al., ``Algebra of the infrared: string field theoretic structures in massive \(N=(2,2)\) field theory in two dimensions'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1506.04087}]. The authors interpret and develop algebraic structure defined in that paper. The paper begins with a definition of the secondary polytope. ''Roughly speaking the secondary polytope of a given polytope in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) has vertices corresponding to decompositions of the initial, ``primary'', ``polytope into simplices''. Then, they introduce an \(L_{\infty}\)-algebra structure in the space spanned by polytopes with vertices in a given set \(A \subset \mathbb{R}^d\). Later, the algebraic structures from [loc. cit.] are developed on the language of secondary polytopes. In particular, in dimension \(2\), the authors obtain a dg-category \(R\). It is proved that the \(L_{\infty}\)-algebra is quasiisomorphic to the ordered Hochschild complex of \(R\). All this allows to obtain an alternative description of the Fukaya-Seidel category of a Kähler manifold endowed with a holomorphic Morse function.