Koszul duality for boundary categories

Abstract

We study how Koszul duality relates two kinds of boundary constructions associated with a smooth category and a proper category. For a smooth category with a proper Koszul-dualizing subcategory, we construct a fully faithful functor from its categorical neighborhood of infinity to the singularity category associated to the proper category. We prove that this functor is an equivalence precisely when the smooth category is reflexive, meaning that it can be reconstructed from its finite-dimensional module theory. Under a Gorenstein condition, satisfied in the Calabi--Yau setting, the functor is induced by restriction of modules. We give algebraic criteria that ensure equivalence and obtain an identification of Hochschild cohomology.