English

Spherical DG-functors

Algebraic Geometry 2015-10-21 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

For two DG-categories A and B we define the notion of a spherical Morita quasi-functor A -> B. We construct its associated autoequivalences: the twist T of D(B) and the co-twist F of D(A). We give powerful sufficiency criteria for a quasi-functor to be spherical and for the twists associated to a collection of spherical quasi-functors to braid. Using the framework of DG-enhanced triangulated categories, we translate all of the above to Fourier-Mukai transforms between the derived categories of algebraic varieties. This is a broad generalisation of the results on spherical objects in [ST01] and on spherical functors in [Ann07]. In fact, this paper replaces [Ann07], which has a fatal gap in the proof of its main theorem. Though conceptually correct, the proof was impossible to fix within the framework of triangulated categories.

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@article{arxiv.1309.5035,
  title  = {Spherical DG-functors},
  author = {Rina Anno and Timothy Logvinenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5035},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

53 pages; v2: An inaccuracy in the definition of homotopy action maps fixed by tensoring everything in sight with bar-complexes; several twisted complex computations corrected

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