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Stability conditions on products of curves and Hilbert schemes of surfaces

Chunyi Li, Emanuele Macrì, Alexander Perry, Paolo Stellari and Xiaolei Zhao

Geometry & Topology 30 (2026) 3485–3512
Abstract

We prove that stability conditions on the derived category of a product of curves of positive genus are uniquely determined by their central charge and the phase of skyscraper sheaves. As an application, we construct stability conditions on Hilbert schemes of points on certain surfaces, including some K3 surfaces of Kummer type.

Keywords
Bridgeland stability conditions, products of curves, hyper-Kähler manifolds
Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 14F08, 14J42, 14J60
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Publication
Received: 7 February 2026
Revised: 17 April 2026
Accepted: 18 May 2026
Published: 12 October 2026
Proposed: Dan Abramovich
Seconded: Mark Gross, Kirsten Wickelgren
Authors
Chunyi Li
Mathematical Institute
University of Warwick
Coventry
United Kingdom
Emanuele Macrì
Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay
Université Paris-Saclay
Orsay
France
Alexander Perry
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
United States
Paolo Stellari
Dipartimento di Matematica “F. Enriques”
Università degli Studi di Milano
Milan
Italy
Xiaolei Zhao
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
United States

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