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A counterexample to the Jordan-H\"older property for polarizable semiorthogonal decompositions

Representation Theory 2025-03-10 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We show that the Jordan-H\"older property fails for polarizable semiorthogonal decompositions -- those where every factor admits a Bridgeland stability condition. Counterexamples exist among Fukaya categories of surfaces and bounded derived categories of smooth projective varieties. Furthermore, we give an example of a smooth and proper pre-triangulated dg category with positive rank Grothendieck group which does not admit a stability condition.

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@article{arxiv.2502.12075,
  title  = {A counterexample to the Jordan-H\"older property for polarizable semiorthogonal decompositions},
  author = {Fabian Haiden and Dongjian Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12075},
  year   = {2025}
}

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