High Frobenius pushforwards generate the bounded derived category
Algebraic Geometry
2026-01-28 v3 Commutative Algebra
Abstract
This work concerns generators for the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves over a noetherian scheme of prime characteristic. The main result is that when the Frobenius map on is finite, for any compact generator of the Frobenius pushforward generates the bounded derived category whenever is larger than the codepth of , an invariant that is a measure of the singularity of . The conclusion holds for all positive integers when is locally complete intersection. The question of when one can take is also investigated. For smooth projective complete intersections it reduces to a question of generation of the Kuznetsov component.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2303.18085,
title = {High Frobenius pushforwards generate the bounded derived category},
author = {Matthew R. Ballard and Srikanth B. Iyengar and Pat Lank and Alapan Mukhopadhyay and Josh Pollitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.18085},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
32 pages; minor revision. To appear in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma