Full exceptional collections on the isotropic Grassmannians

We prove that the Kuznetsov--Polishchuk exceptional collections on rational homogeneous spaces of the symplectic groups $\mathrm{Sp}(2n,\mathbb{C})$ are full and consist of vector bundles. To achieve this, we construct several classes of complexes, which we call generalized staircase complexes, symplectic staircase complexes and secondary staircase complexes -- each of which may be of independent interest.