How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
Derived self-intersection of the zero section
Example
Let be a characteristic-zero field and assume AC for the cotangent constructions inherited from Derived schemes and the cotangent complex of a morphism. Let with symplectic form , and let be the zero section . Using for both maps, the derived self-intersection is represented by the commutative dg algebra It carries the canonical closed -shifted symplectic form whose underlying pairing is represented in these coordinates by .
Example references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, the field , the cotangent plane , its standard symplectic form, and the zero section .
Derived schemes and the cotangent complex of a morphism supplies the derived-scheme and cotangent conventions. In the opposite derived-affine site of Derived Artin stack and cotangent complex, an affine homotopy pullback is the opposite of an algebra homotopy pushout. HAG II Remark 1.1.0.9 identifies this pushout with a derived tensor product, computed by a cofibrant algebra resolution; §2.3.5.1 supplies the characteristic-zero normalization comparison for the nonpositive cdga calculation below. The local derived-scheme Definition alone does not state the tensor-product formula.
Closed n-shifted symplectic form: a closed degree- 2-form is -shifted symplectic when its adjoint is a quasi-isomorphism.
Derived Artin stack and cotangent complex: derived affine schemes are derived Artin stacks and their cotangent complexes represent derived derivations.
Derived intersection of Lagrangians is shifted symplectic: for two Lagrangian maps to an -shifted symplectic derived Artin stack, the derived homotopy fiber product has the canonical closed -shifted residue form. Its proof is conditional on its recorded local prerequisites; this example checks the exact instance used here.
Both maps in the self-intersection are the zero section, with the constant isotropic path from zero to .
AC is the foundational premise in the cotangent-comparison construction inherited from Derived schemes and the cotangent complex of a morphism.
Verification
The cotangent plane has free cotangent complex generated by and in degree zero. Its form has invertible pairing matrix so it is a closed -shifted symplectic form. The zero section pulls it back to zero. The relative cotangent complex is the cofiber of , the map sending and ; hence . The isotropic structure induces , sending to up to the sign fixed by . It is an isomorphism of free rank-one -modules, so each zero-section map is Lagrangian.
To compute the derived self-intersection, resolve the second copy of over by the Koszul dg algebra with , , and . The two-term complex is exact away from its cokernel because multiplication by is injective. Thus is a cofibrant resolution. Tensoring it with the first over sets , so with zero differential. This proves the stated model of .
In the tangent fiber triangle for , the degree-zero kernel is generated by the diagonal vector , while the degree-one cokernel class comes from the normal vector and is identified with by the Koszul model in step 2.1. In the cotangent comparison of [F4], each zero-section Lagrangian map sends to its relative conormal class , and the ambient symplectic adjoint sends to . The comparison therefore pairs with and with , up to the Koszul sign convention; its underlying 2-form is . The construction in [F4] makes this a point of the closed-form space, not merely an ordinary pairing.
In the displayed cdga, is free on in degree and in degree . Its tangent complex is dual, with in degree and in degree . The residue pairing maps to and to , up to the standard Koszul sign. These are degree-preserving isomorphisms between the two free rank-one summands of and . Hence the adjoint is a quasi-isomorphism, proving nondegeneracy.
Step 3.1 gives the closed residue form, and step 4.1 proves its nondegeneracy. Therefore has the claimed canonical -shifted symplectic structure. The calculation is a mathematical derived intersection; it asserts no corresponding physical phase space or path-integral construction.
Remarks
The classical intersection is the entire zero section, and the degree- generator is retained by the derived fiber product. Replacing the homotopy fiber product by the ordinary intersection would discard precisely the conormal direction paired by the shifted form.