Exceptional pairs on del Pezzo surfaces and spaces of compatible Feigin-Odesskii brackets
Alexander Polishchuk, Eric Rains
TL;DR
The paper establishes the existence of exceptional pairs $(\mathcal{O}_X,V)$ on degree-4 del Pezzo surfaces for every coprime $(d,r)$ with $r>0$, using a construction that passes through a Weyl-group action on the Picard lattice and embeddings of weighted-projective-line derived categories. It then links these exceptional pairs to Feigin–Odesskii Poisson brackets, showing that any FO bracket on projective space embeds into a 5-dimensional space of compatible FO brackets, with higher-dimensional families arising from higher-degree del Pezzo surfaces. The work develops a detailed correspondence between the derived categories of the weighted lines $\mathcal{C}_4$ and $\mathcal{C}_5$ and the perpendicular subcategories to exceptional collections on degree-4 X, enabling precise slope control and descent/translation of data. In higher-degree del Pezzo surfaces ($k\ge 5$), the authors provide necessary inequalities and realizability results for possible $(d,r)$, and extend the Poisson-bracket framework to broader settings, including nodal anticanonical divisors and bihamiltonian structures. Collectively, the results connect derived-category methods, lattice/combinatorial symmetries, and Poisson geometry to yield new linear spaces of compatible Feigin–Odesskii brackets and to illuminate the structure of exceptional bundles on del Pezzo surfaces.
Abstract
We prove that for every relatively prime pair of integers $(d,r)$ with $r>0$, there exists an exceptional pair $({\mathcal O},V)$ on any del Pezzo surface of degree 4, such that $V$ is a bundle of rank $r$ and degree $d$. As an application, we prove that every Feigin-Odesskii Poisson bracket on a projective space can be included into a 5-dimensional linear space of compatible Poisson brackets. We also construct new examples of linear spaces of compatible Feigin-Odesskii Poisson brackets of dimension $>5$, coming from del Pezzo surfaces of degree $>4$.
