English

Stability conditions, torsion theories and tilting

Algebraic Geometry 2015-03-13 v2

Abstract

The space of stability conditions on a triangulated category is naturally partitioned into subsets U(A)U(A) of stability conditions with a given heart AA. If AA has finite length and nn simple objects then U(A)U(A) has a simple geometry, depending only on nn. Furthermore, Bridgeland has shown that if BB is obtained from AA by a simple tilt, i.e.\ by tilting at a torsion theory generated by one simple object, then the intersection of the closures of U(A)U(A) and U(B)U(B) has codimension one. Suppose that AA, and any heart obtained from it by a finite sequence of (left or right) tilts at simple objects, has finite length and finitely many indecomposable objects. Then we show that the closures of U(A)U(A) and U(B)U(B) intersect if and only if AA and BB are related by a tilt, and that the dimension of the intersection can be determined from the torsion theory. In this situation the union of subsets U(B)U(B), where BB is obtained from AA by a finite sequence of simple tilts, forms a component of the space of stability conditions. We illustrate this by computing (a component of) the space of stability conditions on the constructible derived category of the complex projective line stratified by a point and its complement.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0909.0552,
  title  = {Stability conditions, torsion theories and tilting},
  author = {Jon Woolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0552},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, 5 figures. Substantially revised and corrected following referees comments. Main results same except i) stronger assumption (the new Assumption 2) required in section 2, ii) statement and proof of Lemma 2.7 corrected, iii) new Lemma 2.9 added and iv) old Proposition 2.16 and Theorem 2.17 combined in new Theorem 2.18, which has an improved proof. One reference added