A complete derived invariant and silting theory for graded gentle algebras

Abstract

We confirm a conjecture by Lekili and Polishchuk that the geometric invariants which they construct for homologically smooth graded (not necessarily proper) gentle algebras form a complete derived invariant. Hence, we obtain a complete invariant of triangle equivalences for partially wrapped Fukaya categories of graded surfaces with stops. A key ingredient of the proof is the full description of homologically smooth graded gentle algebras whose perfect derived categories admit silting objects. We also apply this to classify which graded gentle algebras admit pre-silting objects that are not partial silting. In particular, this allows us to construct a family of counterexamples to the question whether any pre-silting object in the derived category of a finite-dimensional algebra is partial silting.