Stability Conditions for 3-fold Flops
Abstract
Let be a 3-fold flopping contraction, where has at worst Gorenstein terminal singularities and is complete local. We describe the space of Bridgeland stability conditions on the null subcategory of the bounded derived category of , which consists of those complexes that derive pushforward to zero, and also on the affine subcategory , which consists of complexes supported on the exceptional locus. We show that a connected component of stability conditions on is the universal cover of the complexified complement of the real hyperplane arrangement associated to via the Homological MMP, and more generally that a connected component of normalised stability conditions on is a regular covering space of the infinite hyperplane arrangement constructed in Iyama-Wemyss [IW9]. Neither arrangement is Coxeter in general. As a consequence, we give the first description of the Stringy K\"ahler Moduli Space (SKMS) for all smooth irreducible 3-fold flops. The answer is surprising: we prove that the SKMS is always a sphere, minus either 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 or 14 points, depending on the length of the curve.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.09742,
title = {Stability Conditions for 3-fold Flops},
author = {Yuki Hirano and Michael Wemyss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09742},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Minor changes. Final version, to appear in Duke Math Journal