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A smooth projective counterexample to Bondal-Polishchuk's conjecture

Algebraic Geometry 2026-07-28 v1

Abstract

For a particular smooth projective (weak Fano) threefold XX we show that the braid group action on the set of full exceptional collections in Db(X)D^b(X) is not transitive. This provides a counterexample to a conjecture of Bondal and Polishchuk from 1993. The conjecture was first disproved by Chang, Haiden, and Schroll, who constructed a family of partially wrapped Fukaya categories for which the transitivity fails. However, no counterexample of the form Db(X)D^b(X) for XX a smooth projective variety was previously known.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.25391,
  title  = {A smooth projective counterexample to Bondal-Polishchuk's conjecture},
  author = {Anya Nordskova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.25391},
  year   = {2026}
}