Full exceptional collections on the isotropic Grassmannians
Lyalya Guseva, Alexander Novikov
TL;DR
The paper proves that Kuznetsov–Polishchuk exceptional collections on isotropic Grassmannians \\mathrm{IGr}(k,V)\$ for a symplectic space $V$ are full and consist of vector bundles. It introduces three new combinatorial/homological tools—generalized staircase complexes, symplectic staircase complexes, and secondary staircase complexes—to control mutations and pushforwards via Borel–Bott–Weil theory, enabling an induction on the block structure \\mathcal{A}_t(l). The authors provide explicit descriptions of the KP objects and their duals, prove vector-bundle realizations, and demonstrate fullness by embedding twists into a growing ambient subcategory \\mathcal{D}_t$; parity considerations are essential, with even and odd cases treated by distinct staircase families. Collectively, these results extend the reach of KP-type full exceptional collections to all isotropic Grassmannians of type $C$, including the Lagrangian case, and supply a robust framework for related geometric representation-theoretic constructions.
Abstract
We prove that the Kuznetsov--Polishchuk exceptional collections on rational homogeneous spaces of the symplectic groups $\mathrm{Sp}(2n,\mathbb{C})$ are full and consist of vector bundles. To achieve this, we construct several classes of complexes, which we call generalized staircase complexes, symplectic staircase complexes and secondary staircase complexes -- each of which may be of independent interest.
