An introduction to relative Calabi-Yau structures (Q6131070)

Summary: These are notes taken by the second author for a series of three lectures by the first author on absolute and relative Calabi-Yau completions and Calabi-Yau structures given at the workshop of the International Conference on Representations of Algebras which was held online in November 2020. After a quick reminder on dg categories and their Hochschild and cyclic homologies, we present examples of absolute and relative Calabi-Yau completions (in the sense of Yeung) relevant for (higher) representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras. We conclude with the definition of relative (left and right) Calabi-Yau structures after Brav-Dyckerhoff. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1530.16002].