Exact Calabi-Yau categories and odd-dimensional Lagrangian spheres (Q6203832)

Summary: An exact Calabi-Yau structure, originally introduced by Keller, is a special kind of smooth Calabi-Yau structure in the sense of Kontsevich-Vlassopoulos (2021). For a Weinstein manifold \(M\), the existence of an exact Calabi-Yau structure on the wrapped Fukaya category \(\mathcal{W} (M)\) imposes strong restrictions on its symplectic topology. Under the cyclic open-closed map constructed by Ganatra (2019), an exact Calabi-Yau structure on \(\mathcal{W}(M)\) induces a class \(\tilde{b}\) in the degree one equivariant symplectic cohomology \(\mathrm{SH}^1_{S^1} (M)\). Any Weinstein manifold admitting a quasi-dilation in the sense of Seidel-Solomon [Geom. Funct. Anal. 22 (2012), 443-477] has an exact Calabi-Yau structure on \(\mathcal{W}(M)\). We prove that there are many Weinstein manifolds whose wrapped Fukaya categories are exact Calabi-Yau despite the fact that there is no quasi-dilation in \(\mathrm{SH}^1 (M)\); a typical example is given by the affine hypersurface \(\{x^3 +y^3 +z^3 +w^3 =1\} \subset \mathbb{C}^4\). As an application, we prove the homological essentiality of Lagrangian spheres in many odd-dimensional smooth affine varieties with exact Calabi-Yau wrapped Fukaya categories.