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Transgression to shifted symplectic mapping stacks
Statement
Fix a characteristic-zero field and assume the Axiom of Choice (AC) for the cotangent constructions inherited from Derived schemes and the cotangent complex of a morphism. Let be a derived Artin stack with a closed -shifted symplectic form . Let be an -compact derived stack: is compact in , and for every connective derived -algebra and every perfect complex on , the derived global sections are perfect -modules and commute with derived base change. Write . Suppose carries an orientation of degree , namely a map such that for every such and every perfect on , cap product induces a quasi-isomorphism Define , and assume this derived mapping stack is derived Artin and locally of finite presentation over . Then transgression of along gives a canonical -shifted symplectic structure on .
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Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, the characteristic-zero field, the -shifted symplectic derived Artin stack , the -compact degree- oriented derived stack , and the derived Artin locally finitely presented mapping stack .
Derived Artin stack and cotangent complex: for a locally finitely presented derived Artin stack the cotangent complex is perfect, , and tangent complexes represent square-zero extensions.
Closed n-shifted symplectic form: a closed form is a point of the weighted negative-cyclic mapping space; its underlying 2-form induces , which is a quasi-isomorphism precisely in the shifted symplectic case.
is -compact and the cap-product maps in the Statement are quasi-isomorphisms after every connective base change.
The mapping stack is derived Artin locally of finite presentation; this is an explicit representability hypothesis, not a consequence of -compactness alone.
AC is the foundational premise in the cotangent-comparison construction inherited from Derived schemes and the cotangent complex of a morphism.
Proof
For every derived stack , -compactness gives a natural map of graded mixed complexes where has weight zero and zero mixed differential. On derived affines and this is constructed from the K"unneth equivalence , the weight-zero projection , and the projection formula . The projection formula is an equivalence because is compact; this tensor factor is perfect over , so tensoring with it commutes with the limits that extend the construction from derived affines to derived stacks. The map therefore respects the internal and mixed differentials. Applying weighted negative cyclic complexes and then defines integration , still a map of graded complexes.
For an -point corresponding to , a square-zero extension of by a perfect -module identifies the tangent complex at with Indeed, the infinitesimal lifts of are maps from the pullback of to over ; the derivation representing identifies their controlling complex with the global sections of . The derived base-change condition in [A1] makes this identification compatible with -linear mapping spaces.
Pull back along evaluation , then apply the integration map of step 1.1. Because integration is induced by a map of graded mixed complexes, it sends this point to a closed-form point .
The underlying pairing of at is obtained by applying to the symplectic pairing , then composing with . The construction of identifies this with the underlying form of the integrated closed form in step 2.1. Since is a quasi-isomorphism, it identifies with its dual shifted by ; the orientation duality [A1] then identifies with its -linear dual shifted by . Thus the adjoint is a quasi-isomorphism.
The nondegeneracy check in step 3.1 holds at every affine test point . Since quasi-isomorphisms of quasi-coherent complexes are local on a smooth atlas, is a quasi-isomorphism on . Thus the closed form from step 2.1 is -shifted symplectic by [F2].
Remarks
This is a deduction from the specified orientation and duality conditions. The representability and local finite-presentation assumption for is kept explicit; it does not follow from -compactness by definition.