Multiplicative preprojective algebras are 2-Calabi-Yau (Q6042785)

Multiplicative preprojective algebras appear in the study of certain wrapped Fukaya categories, in the study of microlocal sheaves on rational curves, and in the study of generalized affine Hecke algebras. Their moduli spaces of representations are called multiplicative quiver varieties, and are analogues of Nakajima's quiver varieties, which include character varieties of rank \(n\) local systems on closed Riemann surfaces, or on open Riemann surfaces with punctures and monodromy conditions. The authors prove that multiplicative preprojective algebras are 2-Calabi-Yau algebras, in the case of quivers containing unoriented cycles. If the quiver is not itself a cycle, they show that the center is trivial, and hence the Calabi-Yau structure is unique. If the quiver is a cycle, the authors show that the algebra is a noncommutative crepant resolution of its center, the ring of functions on the corresponding multiplicative quiver variety with a type A surface singularity. They also prove that the dg versions of these algebras arising as certain Fukaya categories are formal. Kaplan and Schedler conjecture that the same properties hold for all non-Dynkin quivers, with respect to any extended Dynkin subquiver. The authors also prove that multiplicative quiver varieties, for all quivers, are formally locally isomorphic to ordinary quiver varieties. In particular, they are all symplectic singularities, i.e., they are normal and have rational Gorenstein singularities. This includes character varieties of Riemann surfaces with punctures and monodromy conditions.