Matrix factorizations and motivic measures

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Abstract: This article is the continuation of [LS12]. We use categories of matrix factorizations to define a morphism of rings (= a Landau-Ginzburg motivic measure) from the (motivic) Grothendieck ring of varieties over mathbbA1 to the Grothendieck ring of saturated dg categories (with relations coming from semi-orthogonal decompositions into admissible subcategories). Our Landau-Ginzburg motivic measure is the analog for matrix factorizations of the motivic measure in [BLL04] whose definition involved bounded derived categories of coherent sheaves. On the way we prove smoothness and a Thom-Sebastiani theorem for enhancements of categories of matrix factorizations.


This is a continuation of the article [J. Noncommut. Geom. 10, No. 3, 907--979 (2016; Zbl 1360.14063)] by the same authors. The main goal of the article is to construct a morphism of rings from the motivic Grothendieck group of varieties over \(\mathbb{A}^1\) to the Grothendieck group of saturated dg categories (i.e. a Landau-Ginzburg motivic measure); see Theorem 5.2 of the article for the precise statement. Along the way, they establish conditions under which dg enhancements of matrix factorization categories are smooth and proper, and they prove a Thom-Sebastiani-type theorem for dg enhancements of matrix factorization categories (Section 4).











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