Superconnections, descent, and monodromy on transversely holomorphic foliations

Abstract

Let $X$ carry a transversely holomorphic foliation, equivalently an elliptic involutive structure $V\subset T_{\mathbb C}X$, and let ${\mathcal O}_V$ be its sheaf of leafwise-constant, transversely holomorphic functions. We construct a finite superconnection model for the derived category of coherent ${\mathcal O}_V$-modules. The key input is a mixed local reduction for finite Maurer--Cartan objects over the mixed de Rham--Dolbeault dga $(\wedge^\bullet V^\vee,d_V)$: a multiplicative homotopy contracts the real directions, after which Block's Dolbeault gauge theorem removes the positive transverse form degrees. For compact $X$, this gives an exact equivalence between the homotopy category of bounded finite-rank flat $V$-superconnections and $D^b_{\mathrm{coh}}(X,{\mathcal O}_V)$, interpolating between the de Rham and Dolbeault realizations. We prove locally finite Čech descent under necessary uniform amplitude and rank bounds, identify the coherent heart with equivariant coherent analytic sheaves on a transverse monodromy groupoid, and characterize descent to ordinary holonomy. For a holomorphic suspension, we identify the full superconnection category, up to Morita equivalence, with the homotopy fixed points of the Dolbeault category of the transversal and derive an equivariant Ext spectral sequence. Examples on $S^1$ and $S^2$ delimit when ordinary monodromy $1$-groupoids can recover the derived category.