Flat surfaces and stability structures (Q679655)

The space Stab\((\mathcal{C})\) of stability structures of a triangulated category \(\mathcal{C}\) is introduced by Bridgeland and is based on a proposal of M. R. Douglas on D-branes in super-conformal field theories. The data of a stability structure is a distinguished class of semistable objects in \(\mathcal{C}\), each with a phase and a central charge; the latter satisfy certain axioms. The space Stab\((\mathcal{C})\) has the structure of a complex manifold and comes with an action of Aut\((\mathcal{C})\) and the universal cover of GL\(^+(2,\mathbb{R})\). Similar modular spaces appear in the theory of complex curves with a quadratic differential (known as flat surfaces), because they carry a flat Riemannian metric with conical singularities. The authors prove that, for \(S\) a marked surface of finite type, \(\mathcal{M}(S)\) its space of marked flat structures and \(\mathcal{F}(S)\) its Fukuya category, there exists a bianalytic natural map \(\mathcal{M}(S)\rightarrow\)Stab\((\mathcal{F}(S))\) which is a union of connected components.