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Various topological properties of D-branes in the type--IIA theory are captured by the topologically twisted B-model, treating D-branes as objects in the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on the compact part of the target space. The set of basic D-branes wrapped on the homology cycles of the compact space are taken to reside in the heart of t-structures of the derived category of coherent sheaves on the space at any point in the Kahler moduli space. The stability data entails specifying a t-structure along with a grade for sorting the branes. Considering an example of a degenerate Calabi-Yau space, obtained via geometric engineering, that retains but a projective curve as the sole non-compact part, we identify the regions in the Kahler moduli space of the curve that pertain to the different t-structures of the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on the curve corresponding to the different phases of the topological branes.
We consider categories of generalized perverse sheaves, with relaxed constructibility conditions, by means of the process of gluing $t$-structures and we exhibit explicit abelian categories defined in terms of standard sheaves categories which are equivalent to the former ones. In particular, we are able to realize perverse sheaves categories as non full abelian subcategories of the usual bounded complexes of sheaves categories. Our methods use induction on perversities. In this paper, we restrict ourselves to the two-strata case, but our results extend to the general case.
We conjecture that any perverse sheaf on a compact aspherical Kahler manifold has non-negative Euler characteristic. This extends the Singer-Hopf conjecture in the Kahler setting. We verify the stronger conjecture when the manifold X has non-positive holomorphic bisectional curvature. We also show that the conjecture holds when X is projective and in possession of a faithful semi-simple rigid local system. The first result is proved by expressing the Euler characteristic as an intersection number involving the characteristic cycle, and then using the curvature conditions to deduce non-negativity. For the second result, we have that the local system underlies a complex variation of Hodge structure. We then deduce the desired inequality from the curvature properties of the image of the period map.
In algebraic geometry, one often encounters the following problem: given a scheme X, find a proper birational morphism from Y to X where the geometry of Y is nicer than that of X. One version of this problem, first studied by Faltings, requires Y to be Cohen-Macaulay; in this case Y is called a Macaulayfication of X. In another variant, one requires Y to satisfy the Serre condition S_r. In this paper, the authors introduce generalized Serre conditions--these are local cohomology conditions which include S_r and the Cohen-Macaulay condition as special cases. To any generalized Serre condition S_rho, there exists an associated perverse t-structure on the derived category of coherent sheaves on a suitable scheme X. Under appropriate hypotheses, the authors characterize those schemes for which a canonical finite S_rho-ification exists in terms of the intermediate extension functor for the associated perversity. Similar results, including a universal property, are obtained for a more general morphism extension problem called S_rho-extension.
Let $Q$ be a finite quiver without loops and $mathcal{Q}_{alpha}$ be the Lusztig category for any dimension vector $alpha$. The purpose of this paper is to prove that all Frobenius eigenvalues of the $i$-th cohomology $mathcal{H}^i(mathcal{L})|_x$ for a simple perverse sheaf $mathcal{L}in mathcal{Q}_{alpha}$ and $xin mathbb{E}_{alpha}^{F^n}=mathbb{E}_{alpha}(mathbb{F}_{q^n})$ are equal to $(sqrt{q^n})^{i}$ as a conjecture given by Schiffmann (cite{Schiffmann2}). As an application, we prove the existence of a class of Hall polynomials.
When $W$ is a finite Coxeter group acting by its reflection representation on $E$, we describe the category ${mathsf{Perv}}_W(E_{mathbb C}, {mathcal{H}}_{mathbb C})$ of $W$-equivariant perverse sheaves on $E_{mathbb C}$, smooth with respect to the stratification by reflection hyperplanes. By using Kapranov and Schechtmans recent analysis of perverse sheaves on hyperplane arrangements, we find an equivalence of categories from ${mathsf{Perv}}_W(E_{mathbb C}, {mathcal{H}}_{mathbb C})$ to a category of finite-dimensional modules over an algebra given by explicit generators and relations. We also define categories of equivariant perverse sheaves on affine buildings, e.g., $G$-equivariant perverse sheaves on the Bruhat--Tits building of a $p$-adic group $G$. In this setting, we find that a construction of Schneider and Stuhler gives equivariant perverse sheaves associated to depth zero representations.