{ "id": "1411.1799", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-11-07T00:04:17.000Z", "updated": "2014-11-07T00:04:17.000Z", "title": "Derived categories of cyclic covers and their branch divisors", "authors": [ "Alexander Kuznetsov", "Alexander Perry" ], "comment": "26 pages", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "Given a variety $Y$ with a rectangular Lefschetz decomposition of its derived category, we consider a degree $n$ cyclic cover $X \\to Y$ ramified over a divisor $Z \\subset Y$. We construct semiorthogonal decompositions of $\\mathrm{D^b}(X)$ and $\\mathrm{D^b}(Z)$ with distinguished components $\\mathcal{A}_X$ and $\\mathcal{A}_Z$, and prove the equivariant category of $\\mathcal{A}_X$ (with respect to an action of the $n$-th roots of unity) admits a semiorthogonal decomposition into $n-1$ copies of $\\mathcal{A}_Z$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-11-07T00:04:17.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "cyclic cover", "derived category", "branch divisors", "rectangular lefschetz decomposition", "construct semiorthogonal decompositions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 26, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1411.1799K" } } }