The center of the categorified ring of differential operators

Abstract

Let \Y be a derived algebraic stack satisfying some mild conditions. The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, we introduce and study H(\Y), a monoidal DG category that might be regarded as a categorification of the ring of differential operators on \Y. When \Y = \LS_G is the derived stack of G-local systems on a smooth projective curve, we expect H(\LS_G) to act on both sides of the geometric Langlands correspondence, compatibly with the conjectural Langlands functor. Second, we construct a novel theory of D-modules on derived algebraic stacks. Contrarily to usual D-modules, this new theory, to be denoted by D^{der}, is sensitive to the derived structure. Third, we identify the Drinfeld center of H(\Y) with D^{der}(L\Y), the DG category of D^{der}-modules on the loop stack of \Y.