From exceptional collections to motivic decompositions via noncommutative motives

Abstract

Making use of noncommutative motives we relate exceptional collections (and more generally semi-orthogonal decompositions) to motivic decompositions. On one hand we prove that the Chow motive M(X)_Q of every smooth and proper Deligne–Mumford stack X, whose bounded derived category D^b(X) of coherent schemes admits a full exceptional collection, decomposes into a direct sum of tensor powers of the Lefschetz motive. Examples include projective spaces, quadrics, toric varieties, homogeneous spaces, Fano threefolds, and moduli spaces. On the other hand we prove that if M(X)_Q decomposes into a direct sum of tensor powers of the Lefschetz motive and moreover D^b(X) admits a semiorthogonal decomposition, then the noncommutative motive of each one of the pieces of the semi-orthogonal decomposition is a direct sum of ⊗-units. As an application we obtain a simplification of Dubrovin's conjecture.

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© 2015 De Gruyter. Received: 2012-03-30. Revised: 2012-12-28. Published Online: 2013-05-07. Dedicated to Yuri Manin, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. M. Marcolli was partially supported by the NSF grants DMS-0901221, DMS-1007207, DMS-1201512, and PHY-1205440. G. Tabuada was partially supported by the NEC award 2742738 and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology through the grant PEst-OE/MAT/UI0297/2011 (CMA).

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