Notes on A-infinity algebras, A-infinity categories and non-commutative geometry. I

Let A be an augmented algebra over a semi-simple algebra S. We show that the Ext algebra of S as an A-module, enriched with its natural A-infinity structure, can be used to reconstruct the completion of A at the augmentation ideal. We use this technical result to justify a calculation in the physics literature describing algebras that are derived equivalent to certain non-compact Calabi-Yau three-folds. Since the calculation produces superpotentials for these algebras we also...

Stasheff's $A(\infty)$-algebra $(M,\{m_i:\otimes^iM\to M, i=1,2,3,...\})$ in fact is a DG-algebra $(M,m_1,m_2)$ with not necessarily associative product $m_2$ but this nonassociativity is measured by higher homotopies $m_{i>2}$. Nevertheless such structure arises in the strictly associative situation too, namely in the homology algebra $H(C)$ of a DG-algebra $C$ with free $H_i(C)$-s, particularly in the cohomology algebra $H^*(X,\Lambda)$ of a topological space $X$. It is cle...

In this paper we will study deformations of A-infinity algebras. We will also answer questions relating to Moore algebras which are one of the simplest nontrivial examples of an A-infinity algebra. We will compute the Hochschild cohomology of odd Moore algebras and classify them up to a unital weak equivalence. We will construct miniversal deformations of particular Moore algebras and relate them to the universal odd and even Moore algebras. Finally we will conclude with an i...

We introduce a notion generalizing Calabi-Yau structures on A-infinity algebras and categories, which we call pre-Calabi-Yau structures. This notion does not need either one of the finiteness conditions (smoothness or compactness) which are required for Calabi-Yau structures to exist. In terms of noncommutative geometry, a pre-CY structure is as a polyvector field satisfying an integrability condition with respect to a noncommutative analogue of the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket...

In this paper we use A-infinity modules to study the derived category of a finite dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field. We study varieties parameterising A-infinity modules. These varieties carry an action of an algebraic group such that orbits correspond to quasi-isomorphism classes of complexes in the derived category. We describe orbit closures in these varieties, generalising a result of Zwara and Riedtmann for modules.

An associative algebra is nothing but an odd quadratic codifferential on the tensor coalgebra of a vector space, and an A-infinity algebra is simply an arbitrary odd codifferential. Hochschild cohomology classifies the deformations of an associative algebra into an A-infinity algebra, and cyclic cohomology in the presence of an invariant inner product classifies the deformations of the associative algebra into an A-infinity algebra preserving the inner product. Similarly, a g...

In these lectures we present our minimality theorem by which in cohomology of a topological space appear multioperations which turn it ot Stasheff $A(\infty)$ algebra. This rich structure carries more information than just the structure of cohomology algebra, particularly it allows to define cohomologies of the loop space. We present also the notion of $C(\infty)$ algebra and the commutatitive version of the minimality theorem by which in rational cohomology algebra appear mu...

In this paper we introduce and study the formal punctured neighborhood of infinity, both in the algebro-geometric and in the DG categorical frameworks. For a smooth algebraic variety $X$ over a field of characteristic zero, one can take its smooth compactification $\bar{X}\supset X,$ and then take the DG category of perfect complexes on the formal punctured neighborhood of the infinity locus $\bar{X}-X.$ The result turns out to be independent of $\bar{X}$ (up to a quasi-equiv...

This is a survey of the author's paper arXiv:1001.0023 on "Algebraic Geometry over C-infinity rings". If X is a smooth manifold then the R-algebra C^\infty(X) of smooth functions c : X --> R is a "C-infinity ring". That is, for each smooth function f : R^n --> R there is an n-fold operation \Phi_f : C^\infty(X)^n --> C^\infty(X) acting by \Phi_f: (c_1,...,c_n) |--> f(c_1,...,c_n), and these operations \Phi_f satisfy many natural identities. Thus, C^\infty(X) actually has a ...

This paper investigates if a differential graded algebra can have more than one $A_\infty$-structure extending the given differential graded algebra structure. We give a sufficient condition for uniqueness of such an $A_\infty$-structure up to quasi-isomorphism using Hochschild cohomology. We then extend this condition to Sagave's notion of derived $A_\infty$-algebras after introducing a notion of Hochschild cohomology that applies to this.