Singularities in derived categories (Q2388443)

Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field and let \(A\) be a finite-dimensional \(k\)-algebra. The authors showed in a joint work with the reviewer [\textit{B. T. Jensen, X. Su} and \textit{A. Zimmermann}, ``Degenerations for derived categories'', J. Pure Appl. Algebra 198, 281-295 (2005; Zbl 1070.18005)] how to define a topological space \(comproj(A,d)\) which allows to define and study degeneration of complexes in the bounded derived category of \(A\), analogous to the degeneration in the module category. Following Hesseling we say that two pointed varieties \((X,x)\) and \((Y,y)\) are smoothly equivalent if there is a third pointed variety \((Z,z)\) with smooth pointed morphisms \((Z,z)\rightarrow (X,x)\) and \((Z,z)\rightarrow (Y,y)\). The equivalence class is called \(Sing(X,x)\), the singularity of \(X\) at \(x\). Zwara studied for module varieties over \(A\) the singularity of the orbit closure of a module \(M\) at a degeneration point \(N\). The authors of the paper under review provide a definition of the singularity of the orbit closure of a complex \(X\) in the derived category of bounded complexes of \(A\)-modules at a degeneration point \(Y\) in \(comproj(A,d)\) in the sense defined in the previous joint article with the reviewer. The main result of the paper is that this definition does not depend on the various choices made during the definition and that it is a generalisation of the singularity on module varieties with respect to the embedding of the module category into the derived category.