Vanishing cycles and mutation (Q4407971)

The paper under review tries to explain the role of the symplectic Floer cohomology in Picard-Lefschetz theory and homological mirror symmetry. The author restricts himself to exact symplectic manifolds with exact Lagrangian submanifolds in order to provide some convincing claims and assertions related to Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry and Donaldson's symplectic fibrations. Section 2 introduces the exact Morse fibration (the exact symplectic fibration studied by Donaldson initially) with exact framed Lagrangian spheres. The equivalence relation is given by Hurwitz moves corresponding to symplectic Dehn twists. The Floer cohomology for those exact framed Lagrangian spheres satisfies some nice homological algebra properties such as cone complex and product structures (explained in section 3). The \(A_{\infty}\)-structure and triangulated category from the directed Fukaya category are explained in section 5 and section 6. The important theorem (theorem 6.3) is to give a plausible reason on the invariant property of the derived category under Hurwitz moves. As the author mentiones, ``The approach envisaged by Kontsevich is of this kind, but more work would be needed to put it on a rigorous footing.'' For the entire collection see [Zbl 0972.00032].