The symmetric-product semi-orthogonal decomposition conjecture

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Let CC be a projective smooth curve of genus g≥2g\geq 2, and let CdC_d denote its dd-th symmetric product. Let D(Cd)D(C_d) be its derived category, and call a semi-orthogonal decomposition non-trivial if it is not the trivial one. Symmetric-product conjecture. There is no non-trivial semi-orthogonal decomposition on D(Cd)D(C_d) for

1≤d≤g−1.1\leq d\leq g-1.

The source proves this in several ranges, including d<gon⁡(C)d<\operatorname{gon}(C) and d=2d=2 for curves of genus at least 33, while the full range remains open in the supplied source. The statement was independently stated by Belmans, Galkin and Mukhopadhyay.

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Indranil Biswas, Tomas L. Gomez and Kyoung-Seog Lee, “Semi-orthogonal decomposition of symmetric products of curves and canonical system”, arXiv:1807.10702 (2020).

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