Cluster categories of formal DG algebras and singularity categories

Abstract: Given a negatively graded Calabi-Yau algebra, we regard it as a DG algebra with vanishing differentials and study its cluster category. We show that this DG algebra is sign-twisted Calabi-Yau, and realize its cluster category as a triangulated hull of an orbit category of a derived category, and as the singularity category of a finite dimensional Iwanaga-Gorenstein algebra. Along the way, we give two results which stand on their own. First, we show that the derived category of coherent sheaves over a Calabi-Yau algebra has a natural cluster tilting subcategory whose dimension is determined by the Calabi-Yau dimension and the $a$-invariant of the algebra. Secondly, we prove that two DG orbit categories obtained from a DG endofunctor and its homotopy inverse are quasi-equivalent. As an application, we show that the higher cluster category of a higher representation infinite algebra is triangle equivalent to the singularity category of an Iwanaga-Gorenstein algebra which is explicitly described. Also, we demonstrate that our results generalize the context of Keller--Murfet--Van den Bergh on the derived orbit category involving a square root of the AR translation.