Semiorthogonal decomposition via categorical action

Abstract

We show that the categorical action of the shifted $q=0$ affine algebra can be used to construct semiorthogonal decomposition on the weight categories. In particular, this construction recovers Kapranov's exceptional collection when the weight categories are the derived categories of coherent sheaves on Grassmannians and $n$-step partial flag varieties. Finally, as an application, we use this result to construct a semiorthogonal decomposition on the derived categories of coherent sheaves on Grassmannians of a coherent sheaf with homological dimension $\leq 1$ over a smooth projective variety $X$.