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Stability Conditions for 3-fold Flops

Algebraic Geometry 2022-11-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Let f ⁣:XSpecRf\colon X\to\mathrm{Spec}\, R be a 3-fold flopping contraction, where XX has at worst Gorenstein terminal singularities and RR is complete local. We describe the space of Bridgeland stability conditions on the null subcategory C\mathscr{C} of the bounded derived category of XX, which consists of those complexes that derive pushforward to zero, and also on the affine subcategory D\mathscr{D}, which consists of complexes supported on the exceptional locus. We show that a connected component of stability conditions on C\mathscr{C} is the universal cover of the complexified complement of the real hyperplane arrangement associated to XX via the Homological MMP, and more generally that a connected component of normalised stability conditions on D\mathscr{D} 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.

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@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}
}

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Minor changes. Final version, to appear in Duke Math Journal

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