Augmentation varieties and disk potentials I

Abstract

This is the first in a sequence of papers where we show that Lagrangian fillings such as the Harvey-Lawson filling in any dimension define augmentations of Chekanov-Eliashberg differential graded algebras by counting configurations of holomorphic disks connected by gradient trajectories, as in Aganagic-Ekholm-Ng-Vafa; we also prove that for Legendrian lifts of monotone tori, the augmentation variety is the zero level set of the Landau-Ginzburg potential of the Lagrangian projection, as suggested by Dimitroglou-Rizell-Golovko. In this part, we set up the foundations of moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic buildings.