Degenerate complex structures on surfaces and stability conditions
Abstract
Physical heuristics suggest that the space of Bridgeland stability conditions of a projective Calabi-Yau manifold X should be related to the moduli space of complex structures on its mirror X∨. On the other hand, recent work in the literature introduces a modular partial compactification, 𝒜Stab(X), of a quotient of the space of stability conditions on 𝒟b(X). We provide some mathematical evidence for the aforementioned heuristics by proving that for curves and surfaces, certain boundary strata in 𝒜Stab(X) describe degenerate complex structures on X∨. Along the way, we introduce a criterion for producing boundary points of 𝒜Stab(𝒟) when 𝒟 is an arbitrary k-linear triangulated category. As a byproduct, we deduce the existence of Bridgeland stability conditions on certain quotients of the derived categories of K3 and Enriques surfaces.
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BibTeX
@misc{robotis2026degenerate,
title = {{Degenerate complex structures on surfaces and stability conditions}},
author = {Antonios-Alexandros Robotis and Nicolás Vilches},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.40035},
eprint = {2610.40035},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40035},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Degenerate complex structures on surfaces and stability conditions
AU - Antonios-Alexandros Robotis
AU - Nicolás Vilches
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.40035
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40035
AB - Physical heuristics suggest that the space of Bridgeland stability conditions of a projective Calabi-Yau manifold X should be related to the moduli space of complex structures on its mirror X^∨. On the other hand, recent work in the literature introduces a modular partial compactification, 𝒜Stab(X), of a quotient of the space of stability conditions on 𝒟^b(X). We provide some mathematical evidence for the aforementioned heuristics by proving that for curves and surfaces, certain boundary strata in 𝒜Stab(X) describe degenerate complex structures on X^∨. Along the way, we introduce a criterion for producing boundary points of 𝒜Stab(𝒟) when 𝒟 is an arbitrary k-linear triangulated category. As a byproduct, we deduce the existence of Bridgeland stability conditions on certain quotients of the derived categories of K3 and Enriques surfaces.
ER -