This talk is concerned with generators for the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves over a noetherian scheme X of prime characteristic p when the Frobenius morphism is finite. It is shown that for any compact generator G of D(X), the e-th Frobenius pushforward of G classically generates the bounded derived category whenever pe is larger than the codepth of X, an invariant that is a measure of the singularity of X. From this, we can establish a canonical choice of strong generator when X is separated. The work is joint with Matthew R. Ballard, Srikanth B. Iyengar, Alapan Mukhopadhyay, and Josh Pollitz.

This talk relates to this arXiv paper.

This video is part of the New Directions in Group Theory and Triangulated Categories seminar series.