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Categorical and K-theoretic Donaldson–Thomas theory of $\mathbb {C}^3$ (part II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2023

Tudor Pădurariu
Affiliation:
Columbia University, Mathematics Hall, 2990 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA; E-mail: tgp2109@columbia.edu
Yukinobu Toda
Affiliation:
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, 277-8583, Japan; E-mail: yukinobu.toda@ipmu.jp

Abstract

Quasi-BPS categories appear as summands in semiorthogonal decompositions of DT categories for Hilbert schemes of points in the three-dimensional affine space and in the categorical Hall algebra of the two-dimensional affine space. In this paper, we prove several properties of quasi-BPS categories analogous to BPS sheaves in cohomological DT theory.

We first prove a categorical analogue of Davison’s support lemma, namely that complexes in the quasi-BPS categories for coprime length and weight are supported over the small diagonal in the symmetric product of the three-dimensional affine space. The categorical support lemma is used to determine the torsion-free generator of the torus equivariant K-theory of the quasi-BPS category of coprime length and weight.

We next construct a bialgebra structure on the torsion free equivariant K-theory of quasi-BPS categories for a fixed ratio of length and weight. We define the K-theoretic BPS space as the space of primitive elements with respect to the coproduct. We show that all localized equivariant K-theoretic BPS spaces are one-dimensional, which is a K-theoretic analogue of the computation of (numerical) BPS invariants of the three-dimensional affine space.

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