Matrix factorizations and semi-orthogonal decompositions for blowing-ups (Q344486)

Let \(k\) be a field, and let \(X\) be a separated, regular, Noetherian \(k\)-scheme of finite Krull dimension. Let \(\pi: \widetilde{X} \to X\) be the blowing-up of \(X\) along a regular equi-codimensional closed subscheme \(Y\), and set \(r\) to be the codimension of \(Y\) in \(X\). Assume \(r \geq 2\). There is a well-known theorem which relates the bounded derived category \(D^b(\text{Coh}(\widetilde{X}))\) to \(D^b(\text{Coh}(X))\) and \(D^b(\text{Coh}(Y))\): roughly, \(D^b(\text{Coh}(\widetilde{X}))\) is a semi-orthogonal decomposition of \(D^b(\text{Coh}(X))\) and \(r - 1\) copies of \(D^b(\text{Coh}(Y))\) (see Theorem 3.4 of the article under review for the precise statement). The main goal of this article is to formulate and prove an analogue of this theorem for categories of matrix factorizations. Let \(W \in \Gamma(X, \mathcal{O}_X)\), and denote by \(\text{MF}(X, W)\) the triangulated category of \textit{matrix factorizations} of \(W\) over \(X\). In Section 2 of the article under review, the authors provide a comprehensive background on matrix factorization categories in the global setting, including detailed discussions of their dg enhancements and derived functors between them. Section 3 is devoted to a proof of their main theorem, which states, roughly, that \(\text{MF}(\widetilde{X}, W)\) is a semi-orthogonal decomposition of \(\text{MF}(X, W)\) and \(r-1\) copies of \(\text{MF}(Y, W)\) (here, we abuse notation slightly by denoting the pullbacks of \(W\) to \(\widetilde{X}\) and \(Y\) also by \(W\)); see Theorem 3.5 of the article for the precise statement of the main theorem. The authors also obtain a semi-orthogonal decomposition of the category \(\text{MF}(E, W)\) of matrix factorizations associated to a projective bundle \(E\) over \(X\) (Theorem 3.2), and they discuss several applications of the main theorem (Section 3.3).