Derived Kn"orrer periodicity and Orlov's theorem for gauged Landau-Ginzburg models

Abstract: We prove a Kn"orrer periodicity type equivalence between derived factorization categories of gauged LG models, which is an analogy of a theorem proved by Shipman and Isik independently. As an application, we obtain a gauged LG version of Orlov's theorem describing a relationship between categories of graded matrix factorizations and derived categories of hypersurfaces in projective spaces, by combining the above Kn"orrer periodicity type equivalence and the theory of variations of GIT quotients due to Ballard, Favero and Katzarkov.