Bridgeland stability conditions on surfaces with curves of negative self-intersection

Abstract

Let X be a smooth complex projective variety. In 2002, Bridgeland [6] defined a notion of stability for the objects in 𝔇 b (X), the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on X, which generalised the notion of slope stability for vector bundles on curves. There are many nice connections between stability conditions on X and the geometry of the variety. We construct new stability conditions for surfaces containing a curve C whose self-intersection is negative. We show that these stability conditions lie on a wall of the geometric chamber of Stab(X), the stability manifold of X.We then construct the moduli space Mσ (ℴ X ) of σ-semistable objects of class [ℴ X ] in K 0(X) after wall-crossing.