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Objects of a Phantom on a Rational Surface

Algebraic Geometry 2025-10-31 v1

Abstract

Johannes Krah showed that the blowup of P2\mathbf{P}^{2} in 1010 general points admits a phantom subcategory. We construct three types of objects in such a phantom: a strong generator, projections of skyscraper sheaves, and a family of objects with two nonzero cohomology sheaves. We study the deformation theory of these objects to show that the phantom contains rich geometry, such as encoding the blowdown map to P2\mathbf{P}^{2}. We also show that there exists a co-connective dg-algebra whose derived category is a phantom.

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@article{arxiv.2510.26107,
  title  = {Objects of a Phantom on a Rational Surface},
  author = {Amal Mattoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.26107},
  year   = {2025}
}

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