
A very nice feature of quasi-smooth derived schemes (in the sense of Toen-Vezzosi and Lurie) is that they induce a 1-perfect obstruction theory on the underlying scheme. This gives rise to a virtual fundamental class on the underlying scheme. I will discuss in detail how this obstruction theory is induced. This requires reviewing some facts about the Postnikov decomposition and the cotangent complex of simplicial algebras.
Links:
[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/2804