Simplicial descent for Chekanov–Eliashberg dg-algebras

Abstract

We introduce a type of surgery decomposition of Weinstein manifolds that we call simplicial decompositions. The main result of this paper is that the Chekanov–Eliashberg dg-algebra of the attaching spheres of a Weinstein manifold satisfies a descent (cosheaf) property with respect to a simplicial decomposition. Simplicial decompositions generalize the notion of Weinstein connected sum and we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence (up to Weinstein homotopy) between simplicial decompositions and so-called good sectorial covers. As an application, we explicitly compute the Chekanov–Eliashberg dg-algebra of the Legendrian attaching spheres of a plumbing of copies of cotangent bundles of spheres of dimension at least three according to any plumbing quiver. We show by explicit computation that this Chekanov–Eliashberg dg-algebra is quasi-isomorphic to the Ginzburg dg-algebra of the plumbing quiver.