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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: Zoom

LCB 323*


Alexander Perry

University of Michigan

Title

Serre functors of semiorthogonal components * At 2:30pm we'll be having catered lunch + coffee in LCB 323, and will remain gathered for the talk at 3:30pm.

Abstract

The Serre functor of a triangulated category is one of its most important invariants, playing the role of the dualizing complex of a variety in noncommutative algebraic geometry. I will explain how to describe the Serre functors of many semiorthogonal components of varieties in terms of spherical twists. In the case of Kuznetsov components of Fano complete intersections, this leads to a proof of a conjecture of Katzarkov and Kontsevich on the dimensions of such categories, and implies the nonexistence of Serre invariant stability conditions when the degrees of the complete intersection do not all coincide. This is joint work with Alexander Kuznetsov.

Algebraic Geometry

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