Derived Geometry and Non-Linear Differential Equations on the Punctured Disc

Abstract

We study non-linear differential equations on the punctured formal disc by considering the natural derived enhancements of their spaces of solutions. In particular, by appealing to results of the inverse theory in the calculus of variations, we show that a variational formulation of a differential equation is \emph{equivalent} to the residue pairing inducing a (-1)-symplectic form on the derived space of solutions equipped with a certain decoration of its tangent complex.