Kawamata's DK hypothesis for K-equivalent varieties

Let XX and YY be smooth projective varieties. They are KK-equivalent if there is a crepant birational map between them, and they are Fourier–Mukai partners if their perfect derived categories are equivalent by a Fourier–Mukai transform. Kawamata's DK hypothesis. If XX and YY are KK-equivalent, then they are Fourier–Mukai partners; consequently, YY is an open subscheme of SpecFMPerfX\operatorname{Spec}^{\mathsf{FM}}\operatorname{Perf}X and conversely. Conversely, if XX and YY are birationally equivalent Fourier–Mukai partners with non-negative Kodaira dimension, then they are KK-equivalent. The source presents this as a central open conjecture and explains that its first direction would follow from factorization into flops together with the Orlov–Bondal flop conjecture.

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Daigo Ito, “Gluing of Fourier-Mukai partners in a triangular spectrum and birational geometry”, arXiv:2309.08147 (2025).

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