Degenerations of CoHAs of 2-Calabi-Yau categories

TL;DR

This paper studies degenerations of cohomological Hall algebras (CoHAs) of 2-Calabi-Yau categories, revealing their structure as enveloping algebras of current Lie algebras and connecting them to Yangians and other algebraic structures.

Contribution

It establishes a isomorphism between degenerations of CoHAs of 2-Calabi-Yau categories and enveloping algebras of current Lie algebras, extending to deformations and sheafified versions.

Findings

Degenerations of CoHAs are isomorphic to enveloping algebras of current Lie algebras.

Results apply to CoHAs of local systems on Riemann surfaces and Higgs bundles.

Comparison with the Maulik-Okounkov Yangian via the less perverse filtration.

Abstract

By work of Davison and Meinhardt, the cohomological Hall algebra of a symmetric quiver with potential admits a geometrically defined filtration (the perverse filtration) whose associated graded is a supercommutative algebra. In the case of the triple quiver of a quiver with the canonical cubic potential, which corresponds to the preprojective algebra of the quiver via dimensional reduction, there is an additional filtration (the less perverse filtration), which is defined more generally for cohomological Hall algebras of suitably geometric $2$-Calabi-Yau categories in work of Davison. In this paper, we show that the degenerations of the cohomological Hall algebras of preprojective algebras and more generally $2$-Calabi-Yau categories with respect to the less perverse filtration is isomorphic to the enveloping algebra of the current Lie algebra of the BPS Lie algebra. This result applies in particular to CoHAs of local systems on Riemann surfaces and Higgs bundles on smooth projective curves. We extend this description to deformations of the cohomological Hall algebra obtained via torus actions on the arrows of the quiver and deformed canonical cubic potentials via the deformed dimensional reduction of Davison-P\u adurariu. We prove all our results at the level of sheafified CoHAs, which allows us to deduce similar statements for all versions of nilpotent CoHAs. Last, we use our results to compare the less perverse filtration on CoHAs of preprojective algebras with the order filtration on the Maulik-Okounkov Yangian, via the comparison isomorphism of Botta-Davison and Schiffmann-Vasserot.