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Homological projective duality for the Segre cubic

Algebraic Geometry 2022-02-18 v1

Abstract

The Segre cubic and Castelnuovo-Richmond quartic are two projectively dual hypersurfaces in P4\mathbb{P}^4, with a long and rich history starting in the 19th century. We will explain how Kuznetsov's theory of homological projective duality lifts this projective duality to a relationship between the derived category of a small resolution of the Segre cubic and a small resolution of the Coble fourfold, the double cover of P4\mathbb{P}^4 ramified along the Castelnuovo-Richmond quartic. Homological projective duality then provides a description of the derived categories of linear sections, which we will describe to illustrate the theory. The case of the Segre cubic and Coble fourfold is non-trivial enough to exhibit interesting behavior, whilst being easy enough to explain the general machinery in this special and very classical case.

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@article{arxiv.2202.08601,
  title  = {Homological projective duality for the Segre cubic},
  author = {Thorsten Beckmann and Pieter Belmans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08601},
  year   = {2022}
}

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34 pages, (semi-)expository article, all comments welcome

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