MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker: Vladimir Sosnilo (RIKEN iTHEMS)
Title: Negative K-theory of t-categories
Date (JST): Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
Abstract: To a small stable infinity-category C one associates a Z-indexed family of algebraic K-groups K_i(C).
For a scheme X and C = Perf_X the negative K-groups contain information about singularities of X. In particular,
they vanish if X is a regular scheme. More generally, Antieau, Geoner, and Heller showed that the negative
K-groups of C vanish if C admits a bounded t-structure with a noetherian heart. They conjectured that it holds
without the noetherian assumption and that, in general, the K-theory of C only depends on the heart of the t-structure,
i.e. one has isomorphisms K_i(D^b(C^{heart})) = K_i(C) for all integers i. We disprove both parts of the conjecture
using homotopy theoretic methods.
This talk is based on joint work with Maxime Ramzi and Christoph Winges.