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Reconstruction of a surface from the category of reflexive sheaves

Algebraic Geometry 2023-09-04 v3

Abstract

We define a normal surface XX to be codim-2-saturated if any open embedding of XX into a normal surface with the complement of codimension 2 is an isomorphism. We show that any normal surface XX allows a codim-2-saturated model X^\widehat{X} together with the canonical open embedding XX^X\to \widehat{X}. Any normal surface which is proper over its affinisation is codim-2-saturated, but the converse does not hold. We give a criterion for a surface to be codim-2-saturated in terms of its Nagata compactification and the boundary divisor. We reconstruct the codim-2-saturated model of a normal surface XX from the additive category of reflexive sheaves on XX. We show that the category of reflexive sheaves on XX is quasi-abelian and we use its canonical exact structure for the reconstruction. In order to deal with categorical issues, we introduce a class of weakly localising Serre subcategories in abelian categories. These are Serre subcategories whose categories of closed objects are quasi-abelian. This general technique might be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2302.04635,
  title  = {Reconstruction of a surface from the category of reflexive sheaves},
  author = {Agnieszka Bodzenta and Alexey Bondal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.04635},
  year   = {2023}
}