DG singular equivalence and singular locus
Leilei Liu, Jieheng Zeng
TL;DR
This work shows that for a commutative Gorenstein Noetherian ring $R$, the singular locus of $\mathrm{Spec}(R)$ can be recovered from the DG enhancement $S_{dg}(R)$ by constructing an affine scheme $X$ with a finite surjection to $\mathrm{Spec}(R/I)$. The construction hinges on the generalized Tate-Hochschild framework: the zeroth Tate-Hochschild cohomology $\mathrm{HH}_{sg}^{0}(R)$, after reduction, contains the coordinate ring of the singular locus, and $\mathrm{HH}_{sg}^{0}(R)_{red}$ is finitely generated over $R/I$; this yields $X=\mathrm{Spec}(\mathrm{HH}_{sg}^{0}(R)_{red})$ with a finite morphism to the singular locus. A key consequence is that if two rings have equivalent DG singularity categories, their singular loci have the same dimension, via isomorphism of the reduced zeroth Tate-Hochschild cohomology. The results bridge DG-category enhancements with concrete geometric invariants, offering a method to compare singularities through noncommutative invariants and providing a DG-categorical route to understanding classical singular loci and their dimensions.
Abstract
For a commutative Gorenstein Noetherian ring $R$, we construct an affine scheme $X$ solely from DG singularity category $S_{dg}(R)$ of $R$ such that there is a finite surjective morphism $X \rightarrow \mathrm{Spec}(R /I)$, where $\mathrm{Spec}(R /I)$ is the singular locus in $\mathrm{Spec}(R)$. As an application, for two such rings with equivalent DG singularity categories, we prove that the singular loci in their affine schemes have the same dimension.
