
SPHERICAL ADJUNCTION AND SERRE FUNCTOR FROM MICROLOCALIZATION 3
defined by intersection of the Lagrangians with Fadmits a left adjoint ∪called the (left) cup
functor [3] (see also [4, Appendix A]). In an unpublished work, Abouzaid-Ganatra proved that ∩
and ∪form a spherical adjunction for general symplectic Landau-Ginzburg models [3]. On the
other hand, using the formalism of partially wrapped Fukaya categories [23, 65], Sylvan considered
the Orlov cup functor
∪F:W(F)→ W(X, F )
associated to any Weinstein pair (X, F ) and showed that the ∪is a spherical functor1as long
as the Weinstein stop F⊂∂∞Xis a so called swappable stop [66]. In this case, the spherical
twists/cotwists are the monodromy functors defined by wrapping around the contact boundary.
In microlocal sheaf theory, Nadler has also shown that functors between the pair of microsheaf
categories over the symplectic Landau-Ginzburg model (Cn, π =z1. . . zn), aftering (heuristically
speaking) adding additional fiberwise stops, form a spherical adjunction. Then, by removing the
fiberwise stops, the spherical adjunction for the original pair is also obtained [51], but it is unclear
how general this argument is in sheaf theory.
The structure of spherical adjunctions has appeared in a number of previous works and leads
to interesting applications in homological mirror symmetry [1, 21, 34, 51]. However, there are still
important problems that remain. Namely, the cap functor ∩is only defined in the setting of a
symplectic Landau-Ginzburg model instead of a general Weinstein pair, since it is completely not
clear whether there are enough Lagrangian submanifolds asymptotic to a general Legendrian stop
[24]. This means that even though the cup functor ∪is proved to be spherical as long as the stop
is swappable [66], it is difficult to characterize the adjoint functors geometrically.
1.1.2. Context of Serre functor. On the other hand, in algebraic geometry, the dualizing sheaf
induces Serre duality. When Xis smooth, the Serre functor is given by the canonical bundle
−⊗OX(KX).
From the perspective of Fukaya categories, following a proposal of Kontsevich, Seidel has con-
jectured [59] that for a symplectic Lefschetz fibration, the spherical cotwist is the inverse Serre
functor
σ:FS(X, π)→ FS(X, π),
and proved partial results [60–62], while from the perspective of Legendrian contact homology,
Ekholm-Etnyre-Sabloff have proved Sabloff duality [17, 56] between linearized homology and co-
homology. These results predict an inverse Serre functor, which should be the Poincar´e-Lefschetz
duality on the category of constructible sheaves with perfect stalks
S+
Λ: Shb
Λ(M)→Shb
Λ(M).
Little is known for either the sheaf categories or Fukaya categories of general Weinstein pairs. .
1.2. Main results and corollaries. We state our main result which provides a general criterion
for the microlocalization functor mΛ: ShΛ(M)→µshΛ(Λ) to be spherical. Under the equivalence
of Ganatra-Pardon-Shende [24], the left adjoint of microlocalization ml
Λis equivalent to the Orlov
cup functor on wrapped Fukaya categories, while we expect that the microlocalization mΛis the
cap functor on Fukaya-Seidel categories (see Remark 1.6 and 1.7).
1.2.1. Spherical adjunction and Serre functor. Let Mbe a real analytic manifold. Consider a fixed
Reeb flow Tt:S∗M→S∗M. Recall that a (time-dependent) contact isotopy ϕt:S∗M×R→S∗M
is called a positive isotopy if α(∂tϕt)≥0. In the definition, we use the word stop for any compact
subanalytic Legendrians (following [23, 65]), meaning that Hamiltonian flows are stopped by the
Legendrian.
1The data of a spherical functor is equivalent to the data of a spherical adjunction, as will be explained in Section
5.1. Here we use spherical functors because the adjoint functor is not explicitly constructed Sylvan’s work.