The automorphism group of the derived category for a weighted projective line (Q4953286)

The authors study the automorphism group \(\Aut(D^bA)\) of the bounded derived category of a finite dimensional \(k\)-algebra \(A\) which is derived equivalent to a canonical algebra. Recall that an automorphism of the derived category is, by definition, a \(k\)-linear selfequivalence of categories which is also an exact functor, i.e., preserves distinguished triangles. Assume that the base field \(k\) is algebraically closed. Then a complete description of the group \(\Aut(D^bA)\), or equivalently of the automorphism group \(\Aut(D^b\mathbb{X})\) of the bounded derived category \(D^b\mathbb{X}\) of coherent sheaves on the weighted projective line \(\mathbb{X}\) associated to \(A\), is provided. More precisely, the authors show that up to a translation each automorphism of the derived category \(D^b\mathbb{X}\) of coherent sheaves on a weighted projective line \(\mathbb{X}\) is a composition of tubular mutations with an automorphism of the curve \(\mathbb{X}\), or equivalently, with an automorphism of the module category of the canonical algebra associated to \(\mathbb{X}\). In case \(\mathbb{X}\) has genus one, the automorphism group is, in fact, a semi-direct product of the braid group on three strands by a finite group. The key discussion in the paper is the so-called tubular case, where the authors introduce a combinatorial object, called the rational helix, whose automorphism group is isomorphic to the braid group on three strands. In this way, the braid group enters. Moreover, the authors point out that most automorphims on the derived level can be obtained from the Grothendieck group level by lifting.