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Vanishing Cycles and Mutation

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Using Floer cohomology, we establish a connection between PicardLefschetz theory and the notion of mutation of exceptional collections in homological algebra.

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Seidel, P. (2001). Vanishing Cycles and Mutation. In: Casacuberta, C., Miró-Roig, R.M., Verdera, J., Xambó-Descamps, S. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 202. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8266-8_7

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