Singularity Categories of Simple Singularities in Positive Characteristic

Abstract

We study the singularity categories of simple singularities of the same dimension over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic, and show that, as in characteristic zero, these categories are not equivalent as triangulated categories unless the underlying singularities are analytically isomorphic. In contrast to the characteristic zero case, simple singularities in positive characteristic cannot be distinguished solely from the Auslander-Reiten quivers of their singularity categories. To address this, we extend to positive characteristics a theorem by Hua and Keller, which asserts that the 0th Hochschild cohomology of the dg singularity category of an isolated hypersurface singularity in characteristic zero is isomorphic to the Tyurina algebra of the defining polynomial. Furthermore as an application, we determine the condition for the singularity category of a rational double point (i.e., a simple singularity of dimension two) to be standard. We prove that such a category is standard if and only if the defining polynomial is weighted homogeneous.